An employee of State Electric Company Limited (STELCO), who was injured in a fire amidst efforts to resolve a power outage at some areas in Hulhumale’ Phase II on Wednesday, is currently being treated for their injuries.
Some areas in Hulhumale’ Phase I was affected by a power outage at approximately 12:00pm this afternoon.
STELCO said a fault in a medium-voltage panel at the Hulhumalé old powerhouse caused some feeders supplying Malé and Hulhumalé to go offline, triggering the power outage.
The utility company said the power has been now restored to affected areas after resolving the issue.
However, STELCO reported that one of its employees was injured while repairing a switchgear at the old powerhouse during efforts to resolve the issue. The staff member is currently receiving treatment at Hulhumalé Hospital.
Notably, there have been two total blackouts in Male’ and Hulhumale’ this year.
The most recent power outage in the capital occurred on August 9, leaving residents of Malé and Hulhumalé without electricity for almost three hours—just two months after a previous total blackout on June 1, which lasted nearly six hours.