Electricity is being restored in Bangladesh after the worst power cuts since 2014 cut off the force to divide the country, disrupting road traffic and hospital web networks.
Four of the country’s 8 administrative divisions, which are home to some 96 million people, were knocked out on Tuesday after a transmission line was activated, with some attacks lasting up to 8 hours. Supply was restored in much of Dhaka around 9 p. m. collected in other areas, officials said.
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“Engineers and technicians are working tirelessly,” the country’s power division, which will form a committee to investigate the cause of the outage, said in a statement. “The source of strength will soon be normal. ” Nasrul Hamid, Minister of State for Energy and Electric Power, said earlier that the outages were due to “technical problems” in the grid.
Traffic blocked unlit roads Tuesday night and used candles and mobile phone torches to serve customers. As the blackouts lasted several hours, many apartment buildings in Dhaka were forced to shut down emergency turbines running on expensive diesel.
The disruptions, the most severe since a nationwide blackout in 2014, add to months of struggle for Bangladesh and other emerging economies to secure power supplies amid global tension triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine. Pakistan has led to blackouts and higher electricity costs in recent months, while fuel deliveries to India have been diverted to higher-paying European consumers.
Tuesday’s power outages occurred after a transmission line was overloaded, “creating a cascading effect on other lines,” said Yeakub Elahi Chowdhury, chief executive of Power Grid Co. Bangladesh. problem. “
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