The explosion at the power plant left without light a quarter of the population of Tomsk
In Tomsk because of the accident at the substation “Eastern”, which is located in the street of Energy, no light left the Northern part of the city. Under emergency shutdown got about a quarter of the population of the city is 150 thousand people, including the residents of the houses on the streets of Ivan the Black, Irkutsk tract, Sergeya Lazo, in the neighborhoods Cheremoshnya, Kashtak and others.
The reason, according to local media, was a short circuit at the substation that led to the explosion of the oil transformers.
The explosion was filmed by eyewitnesses. According to preliminary information, no injuries.
As reported to IA REGNUM in the Main Department of EMERCOM of Russia for Tomsk region, information about the emergency shutdown of electricity received in the operational services of the city at 13:50 local time, an hour later, the equipment of the substation was included in the work and energy began to connect users. 15:27 in all the houses, came earlier under the blackout, electricity was fully restored, — said the Agency.
Electrical substation “Vostochnaya” with the installed capacity of 589 MVA was commissioned in 1963. Of its work depends on electricity the most part of the city of Tomsk, including peak backup boiler house of the plant “Sibcable”, ball-bearing plant, and the settlement of the Satellite, which is the training reactor of the research Institute of nuclear physics.
The population of Tomsk on January 1, 2017 was 594,05 thousand.