Power supply in Myanmar's biggest city of Yangon has become abnormal again with the city dwellers getting intermittent electricity supply.
The Yangon City Electricity Supply Board has been adopting a system of distributing electricity to most areas alternately since the past week, saying that 18-hour supply is planned for downtown and suburban areas, while 24-hour supply for important government offices, embassies, hospitals, airport, railway stations, banks and schools.
Myanmar had ensured 24-hour electricity supply for the past four consecutive months during monsoon, getting sufficient rain water to drive hydropower plants since July.
The city once experienced nearly five months' prolonged abnormal electricity supply from the end of last year through June this year.
With business and industrial enterprises mostly lying in Yangon, now a commercial city, its electricity consumption takes up 60 percent or about 530 megawatts (mw) of the country's total.
Up to now, Myanmar has a total installed generating capacity of 1,684 mw. In 2008-09, it generated 6.62 billion kwh of electricity, according to official statistics.