{"id":377979,"date":"2020-10-13T10:09:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T04:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=377979"},"modified":"2020-10-13T10:09:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T04:39:32","slug":"power-outage-brings-mumbai-to-a-standstill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-outage-brings-mumbai-to-a-standstill\/","title":{"rendered":"Power outage brings Mumbai to a standstill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai was brought to its knees on Monday morning by an unprecedented power blackout that disrupted suburban railways and emergency services and forced offline thousands of remote-working bankers, stock traders and technology professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Just as Mumbai was beginning its new work week, the city and its suburbs suffered a massive outage at 10am that lasted at least two hours in some places, and continued up to eight hours in others.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Co. (MSETCL), which operates four 400kV (kilo-volt) transmission lines fetching power to Mumbai, it could not complete ongoing maintenance work on two of these four lines to fix a broken conductor and an obstructed insulator. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai was brought to its knees on Monday morning by an unprecedented power blackout that disrupted suburban railways and emergency services and forced offline thousands of remote-working bankers, stock traders and technology professionals. Just as Mumbai was beginning its new work week, the city and its suburbs suffered a massive outage at 10am that lasted at least two hours in some places, and continued up to eight hours in others. According to a statement from the Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Co. (MSETCL), which operates four 400kV (kilo-volt) transmission lines fetching power to Mumbai, it could not complete ongoing maintenance work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}