KARACHI: Pakistan suddenly plunged into darkness early on Sunday following a major power breakdown and most of the cities including Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta witnessed a large blackout.
The tripping of Guddu power plant’s transmission lines affected the 500KW power line from the national grid, forcing Jamshoro and Bin Qasim power stations to shut down.
Dawn’s Quetta correspondent, Syed Ali Shah, reported that in Balochistan 17 districts suffered a sudden power breakdown.
According to Quetta Electric Supply Company (QESCO) officials, the transmission lines from Guddu to Quetta were tripped.
Power supply to Quetta and other 16 districts have been suspended as a result of technical fault, however, it could not be verified by independent sources.
QESCO officials said, 220KW transmission line was abruptly suspended. The other districts include Pishin, Khuzdar, Mastung, Kalat, Sibi, Bolan and other adjoining areas.
DawnNews reported that more that 70 per cent of Karachi was in darkness after a sudden power failure struck the country’s industrial capital.
Earlier today, Dawn’s correspondent in Islamabad, Sohail Iqbal Bhatti, had reported that the country’s power crisis would be exacerbated as a result of acute shortage of furnace oil.
The shortage of furnace oil had also been revealed by the Water and Power ministry in a report on handling of furnace oil shortage issues.
The report said that power production from Jamshoro power plant has been decreased to 170mw from 570mw.
Similarly, power generation from Muzaffargarh plant after a decrease of 700mw was 360mw only, while Faisalabad power plant has suspended power generation due to non-availability of furnace oil.
Also, power production from HUBCO and Kapco after a decrease of 1300mw stood at 1051mw. Due to acute shortage of furnace oil, power shortfall has stood above 6700mw in the country.
According to the power ministry’s report, demand of electricity has surged to 14000mw, while the generation has reduced to only 7,000mw.
Refineries are unable to fulfill the demands of furnace oil, while a decision to purchase 12 cargoes of furnace oil has been facing a shortfall of Rs30 billion.
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Thank-you Pakistani government and Baluchi corrupt lords, for screwing life over for the most resource rich province, creating scores of disgruntled citizens, who now are doing ridiculous things to the rest of the country to get their revenge.
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Dont beat yourself for this. Couple of years ago around 600 millions of indians were thrown in darkness for days due to grid failure. At least this is a terrorist attack and not a fault of power caretakers.
There must have been about at least 5 dift theories as to why this happened. Even a power breakdown here is shrouded in conspiracy theories.
My theory is that it was a coordinated attack by the mosquitoes, so no one could start their electric mat thingies and they could have a night of feasting. Sounds about right.
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In the same video link I pasted, your guy also admits of exploiting internal weaknesses of Pakistan through the local desperados. Why do you pretend to be so surprised? If you have not watched the video then watch again. Attempts of making it sound like a stupid 'conspiracy theory' wont change the facts on ground.
You think India did it?
I heard one pakistani minister blamed oil smuggling to india as cause of petrol shortage in pakistan recently.
Anything happens by gods will in pakistan or its just almighty India the most peaceful and the most powerful.
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In the same video link I pasted, your guy also admits of exploiting internal weaknesses of Pakistan through the local desperados. Why do you pretend to be so surprised? If you have not watched the video then watch again. Attempts of making it sound like a stupid 'conspiracy theory' wont change the facts on ground.
Watch a retired guy talking in a different setup and then go listen to any of your hamid guls, zaid hamids, rehman maliks, pashas etc etc talking on national television and then come talk here.
You digress though, do you still believe that the power failure is done by India?
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“…And then come and talk here…” What’s that English???
Retired?? Really?? Hand picked by modi government to be appointed as a national security advisor of India who MASTERMINDED school children attack on 16th Dec, 2014 to make Pakistan replace 16th Dec 1971 mishap with the 2014 attack on school one as the black day by paying the local kharijis of Pakistan as per the same plan scheme he talks of in the video.
The Pakistani names you’ve mentioned talk RARELY only on national TV. But Indian master mind of brutal muder of Pakistani school children has great international following for his “talent” presumably 101 on how to slaughter enemy’s school going children by using local murderers. Surely, the award he has been awarded with by Indian government is not JUST for this successful operation within Pakistan but there must be a lot of other successful projects under his belt.
“30 May 2014: He was appointed as India’s fifth National Security Adviser (NSA) on Friday, 30 May 2014.”
And yes, I do not think the guy has said anything against the facts. The local kharijis causing the internal chaos are paid by India. And power break down is just ONE of those internal chaoses.
Don’t act like Aman ka tamasha and pretend India is all lovey dovey friend of Pakistan. Your brush to paint that picture is not even needed because most Pakistanis already sleeping.
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Saw it somewhere, worth reading about black outs,
2010:
On January 30, two separate transmission lines were hit by lightning, blacking out the Australian city of Darwin and the nearby cities of Katherine and Palmerston starting at about 06:00. Power was restored to all areas by 16:30.
On June 27, Portsmouth UK suffered a massive blackout when a substation caught fire.
On July 15, 76,000 people in Oakland & Wayne counties in southeastern Michigan lost power at approximately 19:00 during heavy storms. As of 12:00 on July 16, power still had not been fully restored.
On September 1, Iceland experienced a massive power outage.
2011:
On February 2, in Texas, forced outages at two major coal-fired power plants and high electricity demand due to cold weather caused rotating blackouts affecting more than one million customers.
On February 4, at least eight states in northeastern Brazil — Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piaui, Rio Grande do Norte, and Sergipe — suffered from a major blackout from around 00:00 to 04:00. It is estimated that 53 million people were affected. Major cities like Salvador, Recife, and Fortaleza were completely out of power.
On June 30, Chennai suffered a major power outage that affected many parts of the city for more than 15 hours.
Starting on July 11, Cyprus suffered a half-week power outage, affecting all cities on Greek part of island. The outage was caused by an explosion next to the Vassilikos power plant, knocking out the plant.
On July 23, failure of a glass insulator caused an outage of most of Northern Saskatchewan for about four hours.
On the morning of July 11, the Chicago area was hit by a large derecho which knocked out power to over 850,000 according to ComEd.
On September 8–9 widespread power outages affected parts of Southern California and Arizona, as well as parts of northwestern Mexico. Started by monitoring equipment that was causing problems at a power substation in southwest Arizona. As of 17:08, power had been fully restored in the Yuma, Arizona area. Over five million people were affected.
On September 16, South Korea experienced a great blackout due to hot weather, the blackout came suddenly and caused disruptions of traffic signals, elevators and machines.
On September 24, nine million people in north and central Chile were affected by a blackout that lasted for at least two hours.
In late October, a snowstorm along the East Coast of the USA caused over two million power outages. Some residents of Connecticut and western Massachusetts were without electricity for over seven days.
2012:
On January 14, a 380 kV transformer failure in Bursa Natural Gas Fueled Combined Cycle PP in Turkey, was accused of voltage deviations in the interconnected power grid that resulted in a blackout. Additionally, another failure occurred in 154 kV Babaeski substation caused blackout in Trakia. During the outage 6 cities in the Marmara Region of the country or more than 20 million people were affected. The power was back in all cities in the evening. The blackout knocked out metro and tram operation in Istanbul. Also gas heating systems didn't worked during the blackout. Industrial production was hurt badly too. The problem resolved by getting electricity from Bulgaria to Trakia and feeding lines in İstanbul from Ambarlı Natural Gas PP in İstanbul.
On April 4, a blackout hit every city in Cyprus after the Dhekelia power station failed (with a lack of electric power from 04:42 to 09:20)
On June 29, a line of thunderstorms with hurricane-force winds swept from Iowa to the Mid-Atlantic coast and knocked out power to more than 3.8 million people in Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, Delaware, North Carolina, Kentucky, and metropolitan Washington, DC.
On July 30, due to a massive breakdown in the northern grid, there was a major power failure which affected seven north Indian states, including Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Rajasthan.
On July 31, the July 2012 India blackout, which is being called the biggest ever power failure in the world, left half of India without electricity supply. This affected hundreds of trains, hundreds of thousands of households and other establishments as the grid that connects generating stations with customers collapsed for the second time in two days.
2013:
On May 5, 2013, 40-50% of Luzon island in the Philippines was suffered in power outages because of several transmission lines tripped out, resulting in the isolation of Sta. Rita, San Lorenzo, Calaca, Ilijan, QPPL [Quezon Power Plant Philippines, Ltd.]
On 21 May, the 2013 southern Thailand blackout resulted when a power failure affected fourteen provinces (out of 76) in Thailand, for four hours, starting at 19:00 local time.
On 22 May, 2013 Southern Vietnam and Cambodia blackout. A careless move of a truck deployed to plant trees in New Binh Duong City urban area is the direct cause for the massive power outage in the southern region of Vietnam. When moving a tree on Wednesday afternoon, the truck driver let the tree bump onto a line in the national power grid (500 kV), causing the massive outage in 22 provinces and cities in the southern part of Vietnam, said the Electricity of Vietnam group (EVN)
On 24 Sep 22.14, Trakia region of Turkey lost electricity power. According to explanation of TREDAS (Power distribution utility of Trakia region), a failure in the substation of Hamitabat Gas Fueled Combined Cycle PP in Lüleburgaz city of Kırklareli province caused a power outage in TEİAŞ 154kV interconnected power transmission grid of the Trakia region. Affected places include Tekirdağ, Edirne, Kırklareli provinces and Silivri city of İstanbul. Affected population is about 1.5 million Trakia region citizens and Silivri citizens. Power was started to be restored gradually after an hour and at 00.24 all the region had been electrified.
2014:
On February 27, parts of Mindanao island in the Philippines suffered power outages for 6 hours. As of 12:00PM (PST+8) around 70 percent of its entire grid has been restored. The Department of Energy (DOE) are in question of what caused the widespread blackout in Mindanao.
On August 12, Malta suffered nationwide power outage for almost 6 hours. Power was lost across Malta and Gozo at 7:50PM and restored to most areas by 1:30AM. Due to problems with emergency generators Malta International Airport had to close the runway and several flights were diverted to Catania and Palermo. Outage was caused by the damaged cable which caused explosion of the electricity distribution centre and automatic shut down of both power stations. Previous nation-wide power cut occurred January 9, 2014 and was caused by a Delimara power station fault.
On September 4, Egypt woke up in darkness after a major blackout hit the capital and other cities nationwide at 6am and then continued for hours, bringing some key services to a halt. The power outage cost the strategic facilities of the Suez Canal an estimated LE100 million, as naval traffic and industrial activity came to a halt along the vital waterway. Some television channels were halted for nearly two hours due to the outage.
On October 5 at 02:15, an electrical fire at Transpower's Penrose substation in Auckland, New Zealand, disconnected supply to Vector's local distribution network. Over 85,000 customers in Auckland's central-eastern suburbs lost electricity for over 12 hours. 50% of customers were reconnected by evening and 75% by the following morning.
On November 1,Bangladesh suffered nationwide power outage for almost 10 hours.Power was lost all over Bangladesh at around 11:30 AM and restored to most areas by 11:00 pm.
On Friday 21 November, South Africa experienced rolling blackouts which were implemented nationwide, and continued for the duration of the weekend. This followed similar outages earlier in the same month, all of which were triggered as a result of a collapsed coal silo at Eskom's Majuba Power Station, during a period when the state's power company was already experiencing severe supply strain on the national grid due to further technical difficulties affecting some of its other major turbines.
