Ghaziabad: In the past week, the demand for power in Ghaziabad almost doubled – from 700 MW every day up to 1,500 MW.
However, local errors in the form of tripping that often affect supply in local pockets.
However, officials say that the system is “burdened” and has produced many transformers who become captuts and influence supply.
City-2 Apartment Building at Raj Nagar Extension, for example, suffered a 18-hour power outage between Tuesday and Wednesday due to obstacles in the underground cable because of being overloaded.
In Kaushambi too, two towers – Shivalik and Trishul – suffer from blackouts because the transformer caught fire and the electricity department divert supplies from other transformers instead of replacing the wrong.
With a soaring temperature and intense heat wave conditions, residents say it is increasingly difficult for them to overcome blackouts.
“On June 29, there were blackouts from 11pm to 10pm the next night.
The electrical panel caught fire, triggering obstacles in the underground cable and needed an electric department’s clock to detect errors,” said Mridala, a resident of City-2 officers.
At the Republican intersection, the situation is similar.
“Often stumbling that has made hell live for us, and the standard reply we get from this department because of ‘local mistakes’.
Now the question is why the department has not added infrared power before summer,” said Tarun Chauhan, a resident.
However, Pankaj Srivastava, Chief Engineer from Pashchimanchal Vitran Nigam Vitalut Ltd (PVVNL), said that there was no scarcity of power in the city.
“The demand for power in the city usually peaked in July-August, which previously rose to 1,200 MW, but this time the request began to peak from June itself and peaked to 1,500 MW.
We provide electricity for more than 23 hours a day.” In the complaint In connection with blackouts, said Srivastava, “because unprecedented power requests, he has emphasized all electricity infrastructure, which often leads to local errors but it is not true for the whole city.” Denied Srivastava’s claims, Vinay Kumar Mittal from the Kaushambi apartment of the Resident Welfare Association, “A few days ago, a transformer that supplies electricity in two towers – Trishul and Shivalik – Burned.
But the department connects it with other transformers that supply electricity to other towers too, and Now many people face problems that often stumble because of excess burden.
“However, an official from the Department of Power,” of the total demand for 1200mva, the city gets 99% of the power supply, but this is an outdated transmission line that triggers blackouts.
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