Power restored to areas in Male’, Hulhumale’ after outage

State Electric Company Limited (STELCO) has stated that power has been restored to the areas in Male’ City and Hulhumale’ after repairing the damage to the company’s main distribution cable which had triggered the power outage in those areas.

Greater Male’ Interconnection Grid service was disrupted this morning subsequent to damage caused to STELCO’s main cable amidst road construction work carried out by Housing Development Corporation (HDC).

STELCO said that Greater Male’ Interconnection Grid has now been brought back into operation – whereas power was resorted to areas experiencing outage this afternoon.

The utility company also apologized for any inconveniences customers may have experienced due to the power outage.