Sudan hit by power blackout on Saturday
July 12, 2009 (KHARTOUM) — A power cut plunged Sudan into darkness since 7 am local time on Saturday after disconnecting the supply grid, state official agency (SUNA) reported.
The Merowe dam inaugurated in March is supposed to double the country’s electricity output producing 250 megawatts of electricity and to reach full capacity by November 2009 by producing 1250 megawatts.
However, Sudan continues to experience power outages despite the Merowe dam entering into production triggering anger amongst residents.
The Sudanese energy minister Al-Zebeir Ahmed Al-Hassan was summoned to the national assembly last April for questioning on the deteriorating electrical supply.
The minister said that demand for electricity surged by 23% and that capacity of the Ruseieris dam by 30%. He added the generated electricity from Merowe dam has been unstable.
SUNA quoted the official as saying that the electricity supply will start to return gradually at 1 p.m. local time and is expected to be fully restored in 80 per cent of the grid covered areas, by 6 p.m.
Musa’ed noted that the Rosaries, Sinnar and Griba stations and that of Shahid Muhammad station are operating satisfactorily and supplying the national electricity grid.
But Sudanese residents speaking to the independent Al-Sahafa newspaper complained that power outages persisted last week for periods as long as 10 hours.
They also said that the power outage is accompanied with water outages as well.
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Hashim Ali Mohomed
Sudan hit by power blackout on Saturday
Who is resposible of the black out and why the Merowe dam
has this technical proplems and why the decrease in the effiencey of the turbine simply because the the intake of the turbine is jam by the sedimnation and that due to the wrong handling of closing the dam gate it been closed in July instead of october and that mainley to storage the Maximum just to be certain to flood Manasir so as to leafe
their land for the foriginer under the name of the Investment this countery is not belong to certain people to act according to their benfits This dam is mainley to
stole the land of the poor people under the name of the Devlopment .