Pakistan’s generators produced more electricity than required, due to which the power system of the entire country sat down and about 220 million people were drowned in darkness.
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Pakistan The generators exceeded the requirement on Monday. Electricity Produced, due to which the voltage fluctuated, due to which the whole system collapsed. this fault 22 crores Plunged people into darkness. This has been revealed in an internal government document. This has been claimed in the Reuters report. Entire grid failures are very rare and operators of modern grids find the integration of renewable energy a challenge.
But Monday’s blackout in Pakistan was the second grid failure in nearly three months and the third in South Asia. The grid failure left 220 million people in the dark for a day and disrupted business activities. The outage also affected internet and mobile services. According to an internal note, the blackout was triggered by an increase in the frequency of the power grid to 50.75 hertz (Hz) in the early hours of Monday.
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This caused severe voltage fluctuations in the transmission lines in the southern region. A frequency greater than 50 Hz indicates that the power generated is more than the demand. While the frequency of less than 50 Hz indicates that the demand is less than the demand. Grid operators attempt to keep the grid’s frequency constant at 50 Hz, with a deviation of more than 0.05 Hz generally considered abnormal. According to the note, the frequency of the grid was 50.30 Hz even before the incident.
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Sajjad Akhtar, general manager of the state-run National Transmission and Distribution Company (NTDC), wrote in a prepared note on Tuesday that it tripped due to severe frequency fluctuations in the transmission lines. Akhtar said in the note, “The transmission lines tripped, resulting in isolation of the north and south systems.” Pakistan’s Ministry of Energy has not yet given any reply to the report. The note does not mention why the supply is more than the demand. About 11.35 gigawatts (GW) of power plants were operational across the country when transmission lines tripped and separated the northern and southern grids.
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