Overview
- A faulty 630 KVA transformer in Kamothe is linked to a roughly 27-hour outage that left about 15,000 residents without power, a failure that helped trigger late-night road blockades and mass complaints.
- Residents in Kamothe, Ulwe, Airoli and other nodes have staged spontaneous midnight protests and demonstrations at MSEDCL offices to demand immediate repairs and clear timelines for fixes.
- MSEDCL says crews are carrying out restoration and cable repairs and that separate supply cables and new transformers have been ordered, while the Maharashtra energy minister has directed a comprehensive Panvel region power plan and immediate commissioning of a 5 MVA transformer.
- Outages have disrupted water pumping, damaged appliances, stopped lifts and left elderly and working families sleepless during peak summer heat, raising public health and safety concerns for thousands of households.
- The immediate measures are in planning or early implementation and residents warn that long-term relief will require faster completion of substations, replacement of ageing underground cables and stronger contractor oversight as population growth outpaces the existing network.