An official source at the Public Electricity Corporation said Monday that power blackouts will take place for some hours a day after tribesmen attacked power transmission lines in Marib province in northeast Yemen.
The Mareb Gas-Fired Power Station completely stopped operations, the source said, adding that an engineering team is now fixing the matter.
On Monday power cuts happened for more than 3 hours in the capital, Sana'a, many times during the day. The shooting at the station was a heinous crime and already separated the station totally from the national power grid leading to power deficiency, the source added.
The first stage of Mareb Gas-Fired Power Station was launched at a capacity of 260 megawatts through the second and third turbines last year helping largely to resolving electrical problems in the country.