Power fully restored in Pakistan day after outage, says minister

Al Jazeera:

Islamabad, Pakistan – Power has been completely restored in Pakistan, says its energy minister, a day after it suffered its worst outage in months.

“All 1,112 grid stations restored within 24 hours,” Khurram Dastgir Khan told reporters on Tuesday.

In a tweet, Khan added that there will be limited power outages in various areas in the coming days as coal and nuclear power plants will require more time to stabilise.

“Around 6,600 MW coal and 3,500 MW nuclear plants are estimated to take 48 to 72 hours to restart. Till the operation of these plants, there will be limited load management except for industrial users,” he wrote.

Pakistan’s national grid collapsed early on Monday morning, affecting offices, businesses, hospitals and schools in the country of 220 million people.