Monday morning saw a significant power outage that affected many cities, including Rawalpindi and Karachi.
The national grid’s system frequency broke down at 7:34 am today, triggering a broad disruption in the electrical system, the Ministry of Energy stated in a tweet.
“System maintenance work is progressing rapidly,” assured the ministry, adding that restoration of grid stations from Warsak has begun. It informed that in the last hour, a limited number of grids of Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO) and Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO) have been restored.
Taking to Twitter, K-Electric spokesperson Imran Rana said that the electricity-providing company is “investigating the issue”. According to reports, 90 percent of Karachi has been affected. The official Twitter account of PakWeather.com, Pakistan’s first (Pvt) Automated Weather Stations Network, also reported a power outage in cities including Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, and Quetta.
According to the IESCO spokesman, the electricity supply to 117 IESCO grid stations has been suspended. While no clear reason for the suspension has been given yet by the IESCO Region Control Centre, the company maintained that its “management is in constant communication with the concerned authorities”.
