Power supply to 10 Sindh districts suspended as feeders trip

Power suspension was caused by tripping of around 250 feeders owing to rain

KARACHI: Power supply to at least 10 districts of Sindh was suspended on Monday after around 250 feeders tripped due to heavy rains across the province.

“Efforts are being made to remove the fault from feeders to restore electricity to the affected areas,” spokesperson for the Sukkur Electric Power Company (SEPCO) said, according to Radio Pakistan.

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The tripping of feeders caused power outages in almost 10 districts of Sindh, including Larkana, Sukkur, Ghotki, Khairpur, Kashmore, Kandhkot, Qambar-Shahdadkot and Jacobabad, the SEPCO spokesperson added.

Earlier this month, what started as a tripping of a 220 kilovolt (KV) power line from Bin Qasim power plants in Karachi, cascaded into tripping of two other major power plants in the region to plunge parts of Sindh and Balochistan into darkness.

A broken conductor on a 220 KV power line transmitting electricity from the Bin Qasim power plants had caused the line and then subsequently the plants to trip on the evening of July 7. The fault caused the 560MW power plants to be shut down as repairs were made to the transmission line.

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In Sindh, the second tripping had caused blackouts in Karachi, Hyderabad, Thatta, Kotri, Mirpurkhas, Badin and Nawabshah. Hub, Lasbela among some other areas in Balochistan also suffered blackouts.