Blaze at 500kV Jamshoro Grid station causes power suspension in HESCO's areas: Spokesman.

ISLAMABAD -- The Spokesman Ministry of Power Division has said that various parts of Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO) plunged into darkness due to sudden blaze at 500kV Jamshoro Grid Station of National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) in the wee hours of Tuesday.

Fire broke out in 132 kV switchyard of 500kV Jamshoro Grid Station of NTDC at 1.45 am resulting suspension of power supply to various areas of HESCO, the spokesman said in a statement issued here Tuesday.

He said teams of HESCO and NTDC immediately rushed to the site and succeeded to restore NTDC 500 kV and 220 kV circuits within two hours beside controlling blaze.

It is pertinent to mention here that teams of NTDC, National Power Control Center and HESCO and CEO HESCO restored the power supply in short time. Owing to close coordination among the teams, power supply to 132 kV grid station was restored within two hours from the national grid, the spokesman...