While the Nepalis have been celebrating a dark festival of lights due to scheduled loadshedding, Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has warned that the power systems might collapse throughout Nepal should there be over-consumption of electricity during the Tihar, the festival of lights.
It is learnt that even those areas where there is no loadshedding may remain dark due to failure of the systems. The NEA has estimated the festival consumption of electricity to be around 700 megawatt.
Sher Singh Bhatt, the Director of the Load Transmission Center warns that transformers may burst and create nationwide darkness. If the power systems collapse, it may take long time to restore them, according to the NEA.
However, it is not known how long it exactly takes to restore the collapsed systems.
The NEA authority’s warning is serious. Communications systems and all production industries will also collapse if power systems collapse nationwide for a long time.
However, scientific analysis of this warning is required to detect its validity as well as latent motives.
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