Overview
- The Maharashtra government told the Assembly on Tuesday that an unprecedented May–June heatwave pushed peak demand from about 907 MW in 2025 to roughly 1,010 MW, causing equipment tripping on an overloaded distribution network.
- BEST has identified three sites for new power substations and submitted a land-allotment proposal to the Mumbai City Collector to ease load on existing distribution points.
- Officials said recruitment for 719 technical and operational posts is under way with about 150 appointments completed and work is in progress to upgrade roughly 1,200 distribution points across the city.
- Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar convened a high-level meeting and directed BEST and civic officials to produce a comprehensive, time-bound roadmap after MLAs protested repeated eight-to-12-hour outages and cited failures in complaint response and restoration times.
- Lawmakers warned of safety and economic risks for Mumbai as the monsoon approaches, pointing to claims of about 1,200 temporary jumper connections in south Mumbai and calling for short-term fixes such as mobile generators and faster fault-finding while infrastructure upgrades proceed.