January 11, 2021
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE/KARACHI: The National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) has constituted a four-member inquiry committee to look into facts/causes of collapse of power system late Saturday night, which plunged most of the country into dark.
According to the NTDC notification, the committee includes GM North Malik Javeed Mehmood, GM technical NTDC Ghulam Abbas Memon, CE NTDC Atif Mujeeb Usmani and Chief Engineer (Network) NPCC Sajjad Akhtar.
Malik Javed Mehmood would be convener of the committee, while the other three would be its members.
The committee would probe into reasons/facts leading to collapse of the power system.
Failure of load safeguard system led to Pakistan power outage, say experts
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A massive power outage was reported late Saturday night from several cities across Pakistan. Photo: AFP
Improper maintenance of transmission lines, load safeguard system failure responsible for major power outage, say technical experts
NTDC constitutes panel to investigate what happened
Technical experts explain importance of having spinning reserves as an alternative
ISLAMABAD: The countrywide power outage in Pakistan Saturday night was because of improper maintenance of transmission lines (TLs) and a failure of the safeguard system against load at the Guddu power station.
It became worse because there were no spinning reserves, top officials from the power sector were quoted as saying by