LAHORE: Nearly half of the town plunged into darkness after the 220kV Sabzazar / Bund Highway grid station caught hearth inflicting a serious breakdown that lasted for a number of hours ranging from Sunday evening to Monday early morning.
An enormous inhabitants of the town spent your entire evening in sizzling climate with out electrical energy.
“Our energy provide instantly suspended at about 11pm on Sunday. First we thought, it could possibly be for a short while. However when it extended, we began attempting to contact the respective Lesco workplace, however nobody picked the cellphone,” Arsalan, a resident of Multan Highway, close to a foam manufacturing facility, advised Daybreak.
“Later we got here to know {that a} grid station caught hearth that burnt a transformer apart from damaging the switchyard, resulting in tripping of many grid stations being fed from the affected grid,” he defined. “Since nobody both bothered to choose our calls or make the grid stations operational, it left us with no possibility however to spent the evening with out mild,” he deplored.
Lesco manages to revive electrical energy in six hours
Ashfaq, a resident of Mannequin City (Extension), additionally narrated an analogous story, criticising the authorities involved for not sustaining the facility transmission and distribution infrastructure. “They (the officers) are simply getting salaries apart from minting cash, as they appear to have no time to make the system match for summer time,” he stated.
The localities that remained with out mild for a number of hours included residential / business areas alongside Multan Highway, Johar City and adjoining localities, Raiwind Highway and a few close by areas, OPF housing scheme and adjoining components, Mannequin City (Extension), Canal Highway, Wahdat Highway, Sabzazar, Marghazar colony, Scheme Morr, Iqbal City, Gulshan-i-Ravi, Wapda City, Khayaban-i-Jinnah and Khayaban-i-Firdausi, Allah Hoo Chowk, Township and so on.
As many as 16 grid stations of 132kV capability owned and operated by the Lahore Electrical Provide Firm confronted tripping as a consequence of hearth incident at 220kV Sabazazar / Bund Highway grid station owned and operated by the Nationwide Transmission & Despatch Firm (NTDC).
“The hearth erupted on the NTDC’s 220kV Bund street grid station. It was extinguished at 1:47am (Monday),” a spokesman for the NTDC stated in a press release. The hearth partially broken the transformer and another tools, he stated, claiming that the groups not solely delay the fireplace but in addition ensured resumption of the station’s operation inside a short while.
In accordance with a Lesco spokesman, the eruption of fireside led to a blast on the 220kV grid station that not solely suspended electrical energy provide at this station but in addition resulted in suspension at 16 132kV grid station of Lesco.
“All grid stations have been made operational at 5am (morning) on Sunday,” he claimed.
He stated the fireplace brigade and rescue 1122 groups collectively carried out operation to extinguish the fireplace.
Alternatively, a supply stated the extreme sizzling climate has elevated electrical energy demand as a consequence of rising operation of air-conditioners in Lahore. “This has overloaded the system that lastly brought on eruption of fireside at Sabzazar grid station,” he maintained. He stated the Lesco demand on Sunday night surged to just about 3,900MW on Monday whereas the availability was about 3600MW, making a shortfall of 300MW.
“As a result of shortfall, the Lesco has began observing load shedding within the areas falling inside service jurisdiction of high-loss 11kV feeders,” he stated.
Printed in Daybreak, Could twenty first, 2024