By ME Bureau

Here’s some good news for Mumbai power consumers. It will get 1,100MW more power through additional transmission lines to keep it insulated from outages and the state electricity distribution company's consumers can soon expect a drop in tariff as there's a new strategy to bring down costs of generation, transmission and distribution by Re 1/per unit by March 2016.

"Transmission lines able to carry 300MW have been laid to keep the city free from power outages, especially during peak load consumption in summer," state power minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said. Another 800MW transmission lines will be laid by December to bring in more electricity.

At present, transmission lines to the city have a carrying capacity of 1,400MW and this will be enhanced by 2,200MW, sources said.