Technical fault at Guddu causes country wide power outage: Omar Ayub.

ISLAMABAD -- Minister for Power Division Omar Ayub Khan on Sunday said national wide power outage caused due to developing technical fault at Guddu Power Plant at 11.41 pm on Saturday night adding that most parts of the country have already been energized. Addressing a press conference along with Minister for Information and Broadcasting Syed Shibli Faraz, he said initial fault occurred at Guddu power station at 2341 hours, dropping the frequency to zero. It tripped within a second, causing a cascading effect and all power houses tripped, one after the other, he said. He said the fault caused the country's high transmission lines to trip, which in turn caused the system frequency to drop from 50 Hertz to 0 Hertz in less than a second. Soon after developing the fault, the safety system started work to shutting down the power plants which resulted 10,300 MW out of the system, he said. He said from North to South, Tarbela and Mangla power stations witnessed shut down. However, he said it took few hours to restore the system back. The minister said he has personally supervised the restoration work at National...