MERC begins hearing on Mumbai power outage, may pass directions soon
The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) on Wednesday began hearing into last week’s power outage in the financial capital which lasted for up to 14 hours in some parts.
A bench of senior member Mukesh Khullar and member (legal) I M Bohari heard all the stakeholders at the virtual hearing, but did not pass any directions.
MERC, which had earlier sought statements from the stakeholders which involve power generation and distribution companies, put up a few additional questions to the stakeholders and gave them time to reply.
The Commission, which has expressed its worries and concerns over the outage, will go to the root cause of the problem and is expected to pass directions in a day or two after perusing all the statements on record.
