Electricity supply in parts of Mumbai and adjoining areas – including Thane, Mulund, Ambarnath, Badlapur and Dombivali – was affected Tuesday morning due to tripping in the 400KV sub-station at Padgha. There was small explosion at the station but power supply is being restored slowly, officials said. The disruption comes as Maharashtra faces a supply deficit that has led to discoms cutting electricity to some pockets.
Some parts of central Mumbai, with suburbs like Bhandup and areas within the city’s municipal limit, faced the outage from around 10 am, news agency PTI reported.
There has been no comment from any official so far, PTI said.
The nation’s financial capital does not usually face mandatory power cuts as part of the state’s load-shedding issues but has faced problems in the past, including a disruption that lasted up to 18 hours in October 2020.
