Almost entire country is without power right now, mainly due to a major (yet to be ascertained) power line on national grid tripping that trigged the country wide electricity outage.
All major cities including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi, Quetta, Peshawar and more are without electricity right now.
According to early reports, a feeder on national grid tripped, that trigged chain reaction across the national grid.
Such major break down trips multiple feeders in the national grid, mainly to avoid any further break downs due to imbalance in supplies.
These feeders, when tripped, are restarted in a cautious and systematic manner and may take several hours.
Power Division is still in the process of determining the fault. In a statement it said that teams are already working on fixing the issues.
تمام ٹیمیں اس وقت اپنے اپنے سٹیشن پر پہنچ چکی ہیں
وفاقی وزیر پاور عمر ایوب خان خود اس سارے بحالی کے کام کی نگرانی کر رہے ہیںعوام کو وقتا فوقتا بحالی سے متعلق آگاہ رکھا جائے گا
— Ministry of Energy (@MoWP15) January 9, 2021
Government has issued an immediate statement saying:
Whole country is facing blackout, a large coal plant has broken down When a large plant trips, the voltage and frequency drops instantly. Plants that are on system, are designed to automatically open breakers and isolate themselves to avoid damage. Now they will have to bring them back one by one it will take several hours.
It is yet not clear how long could it take, but from track record of such nation wide outages, it may take several hours.
More so due to night time and fog in several areas, the complete restoration may take more than 12 hours.
Update:
Power stations are getting back to normal levels. Electricity for various cities is back.
This is what happens when you have hvac lines instead of hvdc lines. The grid needs to sync itself and on ac voltage any minor problem can cause blackout in all of the grid… no wonder world is moving towards hvdc and even converting hvac lines to hvdc lines.
Another beautiful gift from our government. Thanks for the blackout.
In fact we are too addicted to a balanced supply of electricity that this breakdown is bothering us. This incident will help you realise how good this government is operating overall.
Very well said 👍👍
If this blackout happen in other than PTI govt what did you say ?? If not , shut your mouthh
My comments are for Mr Haider khan
It effected the call center industry, which generally works at night. Big loss
It effected everywhere
New Pakistan.. PTI says,,,Ap ny ghabrana nai hai.
To all those chanting pro looters and anti-PTI slogans, do you remember the 2015 blackout? Or oh shit that happened in the launderer’s govt so you couldn’t see it? B*tches gfys.
کیا آپ اپنے بچوں کو ایک منفردحیرت انگیز طریقہ سے قرآن پاک پڑھانا چاہتے ہیں رابطہ کریں۔
New Word Seekhne Ko Mila
After LockDown, Corona, Quarantine, Isolation & Now BalckOut :
We must b positive…
DNT worry it will b ok
Anyhow v as a nation r active after emergency …
I think during peace time we must plan to tackle such sort of emergencies….
God bless us all
Aameen