A state that after loved energy glut, Punjab is now dealing with probably the most extreme shortages in complete North India, at a time of peak demand.
According to the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL), Punjab had reached a most demand of 14,245 MW on Wednesday afternoon, however the out there energy from all sources was 12,695 MW – a shortfall of 1,550 MW.
On Wednesday, each city and rural shoppers in Punjab had been grappling with energy cuts. Though farmers get free agricultural electrical energy, the state on Wednesday confronted enormous energy cuts in city and suburban areas, angering shoppers as they’re paying greater than Rs 10 per unit for his or her electrical energy payments . On Thursday, the shortfall had eased barely, however the state was nonetheless the worst when it comes to energy scarcity as in comparison with different north Indian states.
Haryana, which had a peak demand of 11,209 MW, had zero shortfall. Similar was the case with Rajasthan, the place the utmost demand reached 12,672 MW on Wednesday. Delhi additionally had zero shortfall at its most demand of 6,522 MW, whereas Uttar Pradesh had a most demand of 23,424 MW, but it had zero shortfall. Uttarakhand and Himachal additionally had zero deficit throughout peak demand, whereas Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh had a deficit of 250 MW.
Chandigarh additionally had zero shortfall throughout peak demand hours and its most demand was 370 MW.
Punjab is essentially depending on non-public thermal crops as its personal thermal plant in Bathinda has shut down and the Ropar thermal plant isn’t totally operational. Its 210 MW unit ran out of energy on Wednesday, which was restored on Thursday. The Talwandi Sabo Thermal Plant, a non-public facility, has a capability of 1,980 MW, however on Wednesday solely 990 MW was out there as a consequence of energy failure. On Thursday, this outage was diminished to 660 MW, after one unit of 330 MW was restored. Sources mentioned the 660 MW outage of Talwandi Sabo has not been rectified because the finish of March.
Urban areas of Punjab confronted unscheduled energy cuts for over seven hours on Wednesday. However, the state of affairs improved with the restoration of 1 unit every at Talwandi Sabo and Ropar on Thursday.
Interestingly, PSPCL is now eagerly ready for the onset of monsoon in order that hydel energy may also help in decreasing the burden. The PSEB Engineers Association even mentioned that the PSPCL is tousled as “ignoring technical advice”.
Also there isn’t any full time minister within the division. This portfolio was given to Navjot Singh Sidhu who by no means took cost and later Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh took over the portfolio. Besides this, IAS officer A Venuprasad, who’s posted as Additional Chief Secretary-cum-Financial Commissioner, Taxation, has a further cost as Chairman-cum-Managing Director PSPCL. Therefore, the query has been raised as to when will this essential division be supplied with a full-time CMD and minister, mentioned engineers who’re dealing with the wrath of shoppers each different day.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
