The power supply in various areas of Karachi was restored on Saturday after an outage caused due to the tripping of a national grid’s transmission line.
“Supply resumes in various parts of the city whereas restoration work in other areas is underway. Supply to the city from the National Grid has also been restored,” K-Electric said on social media.
“Power in the city was affected following sudden tripping in transmission line of National Grid that created a rollover effect. K-Electric’s plants landed safely in “Island Mode” which has enabled swift progress in restoration,” it further said.
The affected areas included Defence, Bufffer Zone, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Gulistan-e-Johar, North Nazimabad, New Karachi, Surjani Town and others.
Nusrat Bhutto Colony, PIB Colony, Quaidabad and Yousuf Goth had also been affected by the outage.
Earlier this month, three major power outages plunged Karachi into darkness.
Following the outages, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) took serious notice and directed K-Electric to submit a detailed report regarding the power breakdowns along with preventive and corrective steps taken by it.
According to a press release issued by NEPRA, K-Electric is not investing to improve its transmission and distribution network as occurrences of tripping are frequent.
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