New Delhi: With delayed and hot monsun that was unrelenting, Delhi’s peak power request across a 7,000 MW mark on Thursday for the first time in two years.
Heat and moisture pushes power demand even outside the highest 6,921MW season on Wednesday.
Apart from the temperature that is unrelenting, the gradual relaxation of locking in the city has led to an increase in demand for power with independent shops, markets, malls and offices all reopened.
At 3:30 a.m.
on Thursday, Delhi’s peak request recorded 7,026mW, only past the highest season at the same hour the previous day.
In fact, this is only the third year in the history of Delhi’s strength since 1905 that peak power demand has crossed 7,000 MW.
In 2018, the figure had violated the 7,000 MW mark for the first time, recorded 7,016mW on July 10 the following year, the highest demand for the highest peak of Delhi 7,409mw was recorded on 2.
July officials said that Delhi’s biggest demand was expected to be in the range of 7,000 -7,400mw this year, even though the original estimate rotates around 7,900mW.
Last year, the highest demand was 6.314mW, a number that had been crossed on six occasions this year – on Thursday and 30 June, 28, 24 and 23.
Maybe because of last year’s locking, the demand for the city’s top of the city was 6,314 MW on June 29, It’s much lower than the demand for high peak power throughout the period of recording the previous year.
In addition, June by 2020 seeing power requests exceeded 6,000 MW and reached 6,193mW on June 18 this year, the number 6,000 MW was violated in early June 10 on June 7, Delhi’s peak request of 5.19 pm was intended for 5,000 MW marks left for the first time This season.
From June 1, Delhi’s peak demand increased by more than 40%.
The last winter has also seen higher power requests than the previous winter.
When the capital faces cold wave conditions in January, electricity demand also rose and at 23 days that month, demand for peak power was higher than the appropriate days in January 2020.