By Already facing coal shortage and agitation by the farmers, the geographical area State Power Corporation restricted (PSPCL) has resorted to power cuts starting from four to 5 hours in villages and around one to 2 hours in cities.
On Wednesday morning, Patiala, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Sangrur and Amritsar cities baby-faced power cuts.
Punjab at the moment faces a deficit of one,000 MW of power following non-public thermal plants being inclose wake of coal shortage.
Meanwhile, geographical area has started a unit every of own thermal plants, that area unit activity power however at over Rs four per unit as compared to around Rs three per unit on the market through exchange.
The state is already having power cuts in several districts, because of shortage of power and with the plants facing coal shortage PSPCL is certain a tricky time. “For past we have a tendency toek we face power cuts of up to 2 hours within the morning and 3 hours within the evening,” says Sangrur resident Khushveer Singh.
PSPCL CMD A Venu Prasad same they’re making an attempt to satisfy the one,000 MW shortage by shopping for a lot of power. “We have conjointly started our state-owned units at Lehra Mohabbat and Ropar. we have a tendency to are shopping for a lot of power on the market within the open market to satisfy the demand,” Prasad same.
According to a government advocator, at present, the day demand within the state stands at regarding five,200 MW and also the night demand is regarding three,400 MW. Supply, on the opposite hand, is completely inadequate with solely Agricultural Power (AP) load of vegetable feeders (800 MW) being given provide for 4-5 hours throughout day time on a daily basis. the opposite AP load is presently insignificant (about three hundred MW).
The scenario, same the advocator, was grim as PSPCL was left with no generation management and market rates of power continuing to be extremely volatile and will additional spike any time, leading to increase within the price of power purchase, on that the state is currently utterly dependent to feed its cables.
