Mongolia Web News, Ulaanbaatar. Last night serious defects occurred in the Power Transmission Network of the Ulaanbaatar electricity supply, affecting the functioning of Thermal Power Plant # 4. To compensate a request was forwarded to Thermal Power Plant # 3 to provide an emergency supply. Upon the request Power Plant #3 made in internal error creating a short circuit that first put Plant #3 completely out of operation and soon after Plant #4 as well causing the whole city without power and in the dark at around 20.15h (8.15pm).
Ulaanbaatar regularly suffers from short electricity cuts, due to small defects in the network but it was the first time in over a decade that Japan supported Power Plant #4 had to report down time.
Plant #4 was able to recover before midnight, but some parts of the city remained pitch dark for the rest of the night. As a consequence of the black out, Mongolians had to survive this morning without fresh bread and daily newspapers.