North India power failure; Metro outage

Agencies

Posted: Monday, Jul 30, 2012 at 0853 hrs IST

New Delhi: Most parts of North India are reeling under severe power outage since early morning today, due to collapse of Northern electricity transmission grid.

The collapse of the Northern power grid impacted public transport systems including, Railways and Delhi Metro, while normalcy is likely to return by afternoon.

"The fault is not known as yet... somewhere near Agra, a failure has happened. We will enquire that," Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said.

Even though the exact reason for the grid failure is yet to be ascertained, official sources that many lines tripped and there could be even be the possibility of over withdrawal of power by some states.

"A lot of load has been restored, especially for the essential services such as Railways. The connectivity of thermal plants (supplying power to Northern region) to the grid is expected to be fully restored in the next four to five hours," POSOCO Chief Executive Officer S K Soonee

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Source: http://financialexpress.com/news/north-india-power-failure;-metro-outage/981359/

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