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Frequent Power Cuts Hit State ,10 To 18 Hours Have Come From Entire HaryanaBy yogisharma, Section Electricity
Frequent power cuts have hit the entire Haryana. Reports of unscheduled power cuts ranging from 10 hours to 18 hours have come from various parts of the state.
The power authorities today claimed that the situation was likely to improve in the coming 3-4 days. The situation in Gurgaon is all the more disturbing. The daily requirement here presently is to the tune of 110 lakh units whereas the availability is hovering around 65-75 lakh units for the past couple of days. Therefore, the shortage here has led to power cuts to the tune of 6 to 9 hours in urban areas, 10 to 18 hours in industrial sector and 2 to 3 hours in rural areas. However, the situation showed some improvement today due to the revival of two units of Faridabad gas power plant as well as the improved position of frequency. Officially, the situation has arisen due to less availability of power in the entire northern region caused by outages of units in several power plants and with the revival of these sick units, the power situation may improve in the coming days. The state, which was banking upon the much-publicised Yamunanagar thermal plant, has been badly let down by it. The political leadership and the bureaucracy had been assuring the people that once its two units would come on stream by the end of March last, the power situation in the state would ease considerably. But the plant is still grappling with what is being described as "teething problems". Both units have stopped generating power. While one unit has been shut down to install some testing equipment, the other has developed faults. Official sources say unit no. 1 of the Yamunanagar plant of 300 MW went out of generation on April 21 when it was generating at its rated capacity. They claim that the commercial run of this power plant was yet to be started. Click On "Full Story" For More...
Moreover, due to sudden increase in temperature experienced in the entire northern region, the demand for electricity has increased and the available sources of generation have not been able to cope with the power requirement.
As a result of a wide gap between the demand and supply in the entire northern grid, the system frequency is continuously reeling below 49 Hz and overdrawing from the grid has been strictly prohibited by the load dispatch centre of the northern region. An official said the requirement of southern districts - Sirsa, Bhiwani, Mahendergarh, Fatehabad, Hisar, Mewat, Gurgaon and Faridabad - falling in the DHBVN area was to the tune of 375-380 lakh units per day against availability of 280-300 lakh units. So the scheduled cuts had been imposed to overcome this deficit. However, at times sudden outage of generating units occurs due to technical snags, which was inevitable and beyond human control. The phenomenal outages in the northern grid had been existing for the past 2 or 3 days. The extent of outage was of the level of 3800-4500 MW out of which the shared outages of Haryana was to the extent of 650-750 MW. In addition, the shutdown of two units of Panipat Thermal Power Plant of 110 MW capacity each, which are not likely to be revived soon, has contributed to the acute shortage. The DHBVN authorities said the shortage had been aggravated with sudden outages of unit no. 1 of Yamunanagar Thermal Power Plant of 300 MW on April 21, which was generating power at the rated capacity. Source: Tribune New Service 02/May/2008
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