ISLAMABAD: A spokesman of the National Transmission and Despatch Company Limited (NTDC) on Friday said that NTDC teams had restored power system in shortest possible time in the southern island which had tripped due to dense fog in the morning.
Eleven units of Guddu Thermal Power Plant had tripped on Friday morning causing power outages in large parts of Sindh and Balochistan. The plant had 16 units in total but five were already non-functional. The tripping of 11 units led to a shortfall of 747MW of electricity.
Liaquatabad, Sea One Area, Mehmoodabad, Korangi, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Orangi Town, Soldier Bazaar, Old City, Saddar and Defense View areas of the provincial capital faced power outages as well.
While elaborating the details, the spokesman said that extensive fog caused tripping of both circuits of 500 kV Dadu-Shikarpur and Guddu-Shikarpur along with 500 kV grid station
Shikarpur. NTDC teams were mobilised immediately and managed to restore power supply to
Balochistan through 220 kV Sibbi-Quetta transmission line within shortest possible. The power supply was restored to K-Electric through 500 kV Jamshoro Grid Station and 500 kV NKI Grid Station. Subsequently, the power supply to HESCO (Hyderabad) and SEPCO (Sukkur) was also restored.
The spokesman further added that the tripping caused the outage of few power plants.
Guddu Power Plant 600 MW, Uch- I Power Plant 551 MW, Uch-II Power Plant 380 MW,
HUBCO 600 MW and Habibullah Coastal Power Plant 120 MW which, after restoration was inducted in national grid by 5 pm. Whereas the Port Qasim Coal-Fired Power Plant 1200 MW is being restored through its technical process and is expected to be back in the system by Saturday evening. It is pertinent to note that routine power supply is being provided to K-Electric from the national grid.
