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Industrialists: need flexibility, not the closure of the unit to rationalize power in Punjab

Industrialists: need flexibility, not the closure of the unit to rationalize power in Punjab
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Patiala: Industrialist in the city of bathing Gobindarh Fatehgarh Regency Sahib on Wednesday held a meeting and decided to provide a memorandum to the state government demanding flexibility in enabling them to use power up to 50%, instead of closing electrical demand.
Late on Monday night, Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) extended the restrictions on the power and asked the large-scale industry in Punjab to use more than 100 kW cargo in the middle, northern and western zones to close for three days to July to July.
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A sustainable supply industry is also required to use only 50% of the agreed load from July 8 to July 18.
It is necessary to maintain an 8-hour supply to the agricultural sector.
“There are around 350 industrial units in Fatehgarh Sahib using a load of more than 100 kW and closure will cause a big loss.
Some input costs, including labor costs, cannot be limited.
We decide at the meeting to ask the government to enable the industry to operate on power use 50% and the government can keep this restriction until the country faces power shortages.
We are ready to work together, but the deadly will fully leave the adverse effects on the industry, “Industrialist said.
Lack of power continues to achieve conditions amid increasing demand and generation of low in-house.
On Wednesday, even the third unit of the Thermal Factory Talwandi Sabo Power Limited (TSPL) was operated at half a load of around 335 MW.
Losing around 300 MW is a setback for PSPCL.
The two thermal plants of 1980 MW were facing down while one unit was closed since March this year, another unit tripped on Saturday night.
On Tuesday, the maximum power request is 12,969 MW.
There are flaws of 775 MW during the night peak hours that lead to imposition of power cuts on domestic consumers of rural areas and small towns.
PSPCL supplies 3.006 lakh power units and 944 lakh units are supplied by thermal units.
Stable dirty generation reduced to 5,031 MW in the afternoon.
The power supply of the thermal unit is 1,600 MW and 800MW from the hydro unit.
The generation of private generators decreases at 2,175MW.
On Monday, the maximum power request was 13,289 MW with a shortage of 450 MW and the maximum request met was 12,839 MW.
TSPL spokesman said the second unit facing technical problems on Saturday night would likely operate again on Wednesday.
In the past few weeks, farmers have Gherrao from PSPCL employees in Grid Power in all states during the rice season.
In addition, the domestic sector has witnessed a scheduled and unschedulable power outage.

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