KARACHI
The fallout from Tuesday’s massive power breakdown continued to be felt on Wednesday throughout large parts of Sindh and Balochistan, hampering routine life and highlighting the failing infrastructure of the nation’s electricity grid.
This was reportedly the fifth major breakdown since December 2014.
“We can’t blame anyone except the fact that we are so busy fire-fighting small challenges on a daily basis that the persistent problems are ignored,” said a senior official of one power generation company.
According to Wapda officials and K-Electric officials, heavy winds blew off about 500KV transmission-line towers of the National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) in Sehwan.
This led to the collapse of the Jamshoro to Guddu circuit – a network of power lines used to transport electricity.
“Every power plant has a certain tolerance level and wild fluctuations, like they happened now, caused them to trip,” said the official.
K-Electric’s power plants in Bin Qasim, which account for most of the electricity it generates, went offline as a consequence.