According to a BSES spokesperson, a cat jumped into the 66-kV Kondli sub-station late on Friday night and was electrocuted by an 11-kV outgoing panel. “The cat must have been wet. When it got electrocuted, some sparks caused a fire that ended up damaging multiple panels. This led to a power cut in the area.”
While the company said changing the damaged panels was a “time consuming process”, power department officials blamed BSES for not making adequate arrangements to back feed the area and make supply power from alternate sources.
“There has been no electricity since late last [Friday] night. Even the inverter stopped working after a couple of hours. The BSES helpline said the supply will resume by noon, but no such thing happened. It has been a horrible day for us,” said a resident of East End Apartment in Mayur Vihar.
2 comments:
I think that's a bunch of baloney. The power grid system is completely inadequate and you can't blame that on a wet kitty.
I seem to recall it's quite difficult to restart a power grid. The power coming out of all the stations needs to be in the same phase as all the other stations or you could cause another blackout.
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