The incident happened last Sunday in southern India and the authorities continue to work to know what happened in the electricity grid. The animal crashed into a transformer, which caused the mass cut throughout the island.
The city of Sri Lankalocated south of India, lived a great moment of tension after a bun It fell on a Electric transformer and cause a Electricity cut which extended for more than four days this Friday, and that interrupted the service of more than 23 million people of the island.
“An incident in which a Mono crashed with a transformer caused this breakdown, “he said Kumara Jayakodythe Minister of Energy, to the local media and added that the accident caused a great imbalance in the electrical system that left the entire area and the large number of inhabitants without electricity.
He official He pointed out that the event in which the monkey was involved, the Sunday, February 9 and took place at the electricity station of the city of Bread, Located a few kilometers from Colombo, in the southwest of Sri Lanka.
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According to the authorities, this installation is a Electric substationso specialists are investigating How a problem in its transformer could leave the entire island without electricity. Meanwhile, the minister had asked the owners of Solar panels on the roofsto disconnect from the main network.
How was electric restoration
After last Sunday’s incident, the Operations and analysis to manage the return of electricity progressively and carefully. “All effort is being made to restore the network to its maximum capacitybut power cuts will be implemented to manage the hours of maximum demand during the night, “added the statement of the CEB, In the first days of inconveniences.
He Monday and the Tuesday electricity cuts began to be made of ninety minutes to be able to control high demand from users. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Energy is conducting investigation into the blackout to be able to take the corresponding measures and prevent it from happening again.
The fact was not going to viralize in social networkswhich revealed the discontent of most users, who took the situation between the humor and the tragedy. In addition to the fact in timely, the situation exposed the Problems which presents the power grid of Sri Lanka and the lack of updating and modernization of its system, so that these overloads and blackouts do not become frequent.
Source: Ambito
