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As it is being forecasted to be a hot summer, demand for power has reached 230 GW as the government directed thermal power plants (TPPs) to not go for any planned outage during April and May this year.
"According to initial information, at about 7:34 AM (local time) today, the National Grid experienced a loss of frequency, that caused a major breakdown. A swift work is on to revive the system," the ministry said in a statement.
On Monday evening, many parts of Mumbai were plunged into darkness due to a "technical problem." The interruption follows a string of power outages in the financial capital over the last month, owing to a severe electricity deficit that prompted the state discom MSEDCL to implement load-shedding in numerous districts of Maharashtra.