PATIALA: PSPCL has decided today to force two weekly days for industrial consumers except for important categories and excluded with direct effects.
Two weekly days will start from 4pm on Thursday and continue until 3.
July.
PSPCL has appealed to government offices and the public sector to limit the use of air conditioning in the office for the next three days in the view of power shortages in the state.
The state cannot meet the request of 14500 MW.
“Because of the delayed monsoon, a rice transplantation in the state and due to lack of power due to the failure of one unit of Talwandi Sabo Thermal Power (TSPL), PSPCL facing problems in meeting power demand more than 14,500 plus MW.
PSPCL is always committed to providing power supply without interruption reliable for all consumer categories in the state.
However, given the situation above unprecedented, I appealed to all officers & offcials working in various government departments, boards and companies to make wise electricity use in the office and Their business center by turning off lights, devices & equipment when it is not needed and turns off equipment that takes high power such as air conditioning for the next three days.
Furthermore, wherever possible, employees are advised to avoid using several AC units in the office to reduce the power load on system in addition to reducing bills Their electricity, “said, Er DPS Grewal, director’s distribution, PSPCL.
Farmers throughout Punjab continued to protest a short supply of agricultural feeders when Punjab had retained the power supply between 11,791 MW to 12,842 MW after limiting the power supply to rural consumers, cutting agricultural pumps, and cuts that were not announced in cities.
On Wednesday PSPSL provides 2,979 lakh units in the state and at least 251 units of lakh supply lack of power.
On Tuesday there was a lack of 1.550 MW request and 132 lakh power supply units.
The thermal generator in the state is 1,000 lakh units consisting of 325 lakh units by the state sector thermal installation and 675 lakh units by the private sector.
One Ropar unit is under damage.
The supply of water power in the state is 223 lakh units and the Bhakra unit supply around 75 lakh units to Punjab.
Punjab can import a maximum of 7,300 MW from the northern grid.
Punjab has its own generation around 5,500 MW of all sources including diesel during the day.
This implies in the current situation can supply around 12,700 MW.
PSPCL recently asked BBMB to increase the supply of peak time considering the power crisis in Punjab.
The water level in the Bhakra Dam is 1525.6 feet against last year’s level of 1,582.3 feet down 57 feet.
The generation at Bhakra Powerhouses is 197 units of Lakh and Pangerjab share of 40% of generations.
BBMB supplies an average of around 800 MW in a day with a 1050 MW night peak.