A committee appointed by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) to probe the Mumbai power outage incident on October 12 started its investigation on Tuesday afternoon. The committee is investigating if there were lapses in the response to technical faults. It will also investigate why the islanding system that separates Mumbai in case of a state grid failure did not work owing to the sudden load. While state energy minister Nitin Raut had said that the state would form a panel to probe the lapse, committee members were not named until Wednesday evening.
Dinesh Waghmare, managing director of the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL), said,
