Chennai Power Cut: Power Cuts Grip Capital With Both Planned & Sudden Outages; These Areas Hit By Supply Now

Several areas in Chennai is witnessing scheduled and unscheduled power cuts on Thursday morning.

Complaints are being raised by netizens from Mathur, Kodungaiyur Krishnamurthy Nagar, Perumal Street Line, Pammal, Meenakshi Bharathi co operative society and Kumaran Street in Maadhavaram, etc.

Meanwhile, parts of Tambaram, Ambattur, and Tiruverkadu are facing the scheduled power cuts.

Here are the the areas hit by power supply now.

Hi @TANGEDCO_Offcl chennai kodungaiyur Krishnamurthy nagar, perumal street line fully power cut 🥲 and its festival day people in my area facing difficulties without current. Could you please conform its a normal Power cut or any full day shutdown

— CM Vijay Trends (@rizzuu655) May 28, 2026

Tambaram: Rajakilpakkam Camp Road, Velachery Main Road, Bharathi Park Street, Karnam Street, Raja Iyer Street, Madha Kovil Street, Nelluramman Kovil Street, Palaiyathan Street, New Balaji Nagar and Extension, Lora Street, Aavai Nagar, Kannan Nagar and IOB Colony, Chitlapakkam GST Road, Siddha Hospital, Sanatorium, Sundaram Colony 1st, 2nd, 3rd Main Street, SV Koil Street, VV Koil Street, Railway Border Road, Amara Jeeva Street, Jaya Nagar Main Road 1st, 2nd, 3rd Cross Street, Vedhandam Colony, Evalappan Street Kuppusamy Street, Madhavan Street, Sundarmbal Nagar, Sharmila Street, Water Board, Kumaran Street, Jeeva Street, Kamarajar Nagar, Apparao Colony.

@TANGEDCO_Offcl is that any problem going
Now days power problems are came yesterday only One full day shutdown but now what happened @TANGEDCO_Offcl kindly solve this problem soon

— yashwanth photography (@yashhtweets) May 27, 2026

Ambattur: JJ Nagar Church Road, Trinity Church Road, OV Joseph Street, Vasantha Street, Lisa Ponnammal Street, Srinivasan Street, Bakkiam Street, Pillaiyar Koil Street, Selvi Jayakumar Street, Arani Subramaniyan Street, George Rathinam Street, Cicily Pushpam Street, Rathinavel Pandiyan Street, GG Nagar.

Tiruverkadu: Mahalakshmi College Sundhara Chozhapuram,Ram Nagar, Sundhara Vinayaga Nagar, Chelliamman Nagar, Green Park, Sakkareswari Nagar.

However, the supply will resume at 2 pm today in the aforementioned areas as per the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation.

Per day ethana tym ppa power cut pannuvinga Chennai la mr cm konjam pakka sollunga

— kvsankar (@kv_sankar) May 27, 2026

Tamil Nadu capital is witnessing unprecedented power cuts in the last few weeks. There have been protests against the electricity department for unannounced power cuts as the citizens struggle to cope up with the sweltering summer heat.

Chennai's peak power demand touched a new high of 4,809 MW at 10 pm on May 21. It surpassed the previous record of 4,769 MW registered on May 31, 2024.