Mumbai Power Cuts: 'No Electricity All Night' Keeps Bandra And Khar Awake, Residents Sweat It Out On Twitter

The power outage comes at a time when Maharashtra is reeling under a power deficit of 3,500 MW, which has resulted in 'load shedding' in various areas of Mumbai.

Mumbai has been facing frequent power outages for the past few days (Representative Photo)

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New Delhi: Financial capital Mumbai faced a power cut yet again on Wednesday which aggravated woes for people already sweltering under a heatwave. According to an ANI report, there was a double cable fault in Khar-9 substations, and areas between Khar and Bandra were affected, early this morning.

Adani Electricity, which is among the firms that supply power in the financial capital said today that 6 substations have been restored. While the repairing work is underway for the remaining 3 substations which'll be restored in some time.

The city had also witnessed a power outage twice on Tuesday for over an hour amid scorching heatwaves and high electricity demand in other states. The frequent power cuts irked the people who took to Twitter to complain about the 'blackout' while some said that there was no electricity all night. 

Amid soaring temperature in the city and long summer nights, the angry Mumbaikars flooded the micro-blogging platform speaking about the misery they have been facing over the past few days. 

Outages were reported from Mumbai's posh Khar area with a user questioning the quality of services despite what he claimed were high electricity charges.

 

Adani Electricity responded to a user that the power supply will be restored in another 4 hours, "Dear Ma'am, regret the inconvenience caused. The interruption is as a result of breakdown. We would like to assure you that our technical teams are on the job and are striving hard to restore supply to the affected areas in 240 minutes [sic]." 

Earlier on Tuesday, tripping at an important substation feeding power to the megapolis led to a power cut of over an hour in many parts of Mumbai.

Lines at the Padgha substation located near Kalyan tripped at about 10 am, leading power companies to resort to load shedding to maintain grid balance, which resulted in the power disruption in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.

The power outage comes at a time when Maharashtra is reeling under a power deficit of 3,500 MW, which has resulted in the state discom being forced to carry out 'load shedding' or compulsory power cuts in pockets to manage the demand-supply situation and safeguard the grid.

Typically, pockets in the city and well-paying consumers in the adjoining areas do not face such load shedding, but there have been at least two instances in recent past where large scale disruptions did happen.

The financial capital had faced a power outage on October 12, 2020, which took up to 18 hours to get fully restored, while there was another incident in February this year on a weekend, which had also led to temporary stoppage of the suburban train services, considered as the city's lifeline.