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BESCOM feeder fault leaves parts of Bengaluru without power
A BESCOM feeder fault has left parts of Bengaluru without power today, with separate scheduled maintenance outages also planned elsewhere.
A feeder fault reported by the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company has left parts of Bengaluru without power today.
Kodichikanahalli is without power from 6:30 am to 10 am, while Mangamanapalya and Devarachikkanahalli are affected between 6 am and 10 am.
BESCOM attributed the outage to a trip in the 66/11KV HSR MUSS F2 feeder, which needs restoration work to resolve.
The utility has also scheduled separate maintenance outages today in Konappana Agrahara and Electronic City, running from 6 am to 10 am.
Another scheduled cut under the Puravankara Substation jurisdiction covers Halehalli, Maragondanahalli, Kalkere Road, Byrathi Village, Kanakashree Layout and Atma Vidya Nagar.
Residents in the affected localities have been advised to charge essential devices beforehand and plan accordingly during the outage windows.
BESCOM has urged residents to follow its official notices for updates, since the HSR feeder fault is unplanned rather than routine maintenance.
Power disruptions of this kind are a recurring feature of Bengaluru’s monsoon and maintenance seasons, with the utility periodically publishing area-wise schedules to help residents plan around expected outages.
BESCOM supplies electricity across Bengaluru and several surrounding districts, and routinely carries out both planned maintenance outages and unplanned fault repairs, with residents typically notified through the utility’s website, mobile app and local announcements.
The HSR MUSS feeder in question forms part of the network serving the HSR Layout area and neighbouring localities, and faults on such feeders can affect multiple connected substations simultaneously, as has been the case with today’s disruption.
Electronic City, one of the areas affected by today’s separate scheduled maintenance, is home to a large concentration of IT and business parks, meaning outages there can have a wider impact on office operations than in purely residential localities.
BESCOM has previously said that scheduled maintenance outages, of the kind affecting Konappana Agrahara and the Puravankara Substation jurisdiction today, are aimed at upgrading ageing infrastructure and reducing the frequency of unplanned faults over the longer term.
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