Taking suo moto cognisance on the Mumbai power outage earlier this month, the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has ordered an independent inquiry into the incident. The investigating committee has been directed to submit a report on the matter within three months prior to which an interim report is expected in a month.
In its order released on Friday, MERC stated that the committee needs to “verify and analyse the submissions of all parties, to find out the root cause of the incident, to examine the adequacy of protection systems/islanding system, etc, and to verify the adequacy of responses of all concerned.”
The committee also has to probe if generation and distribution companies followed protocol for restoration of power supply to the city.
