Maharashtra government mulls expanding capacity of islanding system to avoid power outage in Mumbai
Following the major power outage in Mumbai in October, the Maharashtra government is mulling expanding the capacity of the islanding system, meant to supply uninterrupted electricity to the city. The state is intending to expand the capacity to somewhere between 2,500 megawatts (MW) to 3,000MW from the existing 1,600MW.
The issue was discussed in a meeting chaired by chief minister (CM) Uddhav Thackeray on Monday.
A grid failure had resulted in massive power outages in Mumbai and its suburban areas on October 12, stopping trains, disrupting office work and hitting economic activity. It took two hours for the power supply to resume for essential services; other pockets started receiving power in a phase-wise manner.
