Several parts of the eastern and western suburbs, including Saki Naka, Powai, Andheri, Vikhroli, Borivali, Kandivali, Malad, Versova and Mira Bhayandar experienced power cuts on Wednesday after Tata Power’s transmission tower in Airoli collapsed. Consumers of Tata Power and Reliance Energy in these areas are likely to face disruption in power supply for the next five days.
A Tata Power spokesperson said, “Kalwa Salsette lines 3 and 4 bringing power from outside [Mumbai] has been taken out of service to attend to tower 26 that collapsed on the evening of June 28. Tata Power is working on providing an alternative route, which may take around five days.” Since Reliance Energy uses the Kalwa-Salsette lines to source its power requirement of around 750MW from Nagpur, it will have to resort to rotational load-shedding.
