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Massive power cuts loom large on Telangana
The sudden increase in power demand in the ongoing Rabi season and the stoppage of hydel power generation would lead to official power outages across Telangana State including the capital city from January last week. TSSPDCL (Southern Power Distribution Company Limited) and TSNPDCL (Northern Power Distribution Company Limited) have been asked to prepare schedule for power cuts after the two DISCOMs informed the government
Official power outages across Telangana including capital will begin in January last week
Hyderabad: The sudden increase in power demand in the ongoing Rabi season and the stoppage of hydel power generation would lead to official power outages across Telangana State including the capital city from January last week. TSSPDCL (Southern Power Distribution Company Limited) and TSNPDCL (Northern Power Distribution Company Limited) have been asked to prepare schedule for power cuts after the two DISCOMs informed the government their inability in supplying seven hour power to agriculture under the present power crisis.
It is estimated that the power demand will be increased to 140 MU (Million Units) per day in February from the present 128 MU. The demand and supply gap will be increased to 15 MU from the present 5 MU. The utilities attributed the increased consumption of power for farming in Rabi and soaring temperatures as the main reasons for escalating demand for power in the next four months. On the other side, stoppage of power generation at Nagarjuna Sagar hydel power station due to depleting water levels in reservoirs deprived the State of 900 MW of power.
The officials of TSTRANSCO said under the present circumstances the only option before the utilities was to impose power cuts to ensure required power supply to farming. Despite the Discoms requesting the government to restrict power supply to farming to five hours from seven hours in the peak season, government instead favoured load-shedding for domestic and industrial sectors.
Since there was no guarantee from Chhattisgarh for the supply of 1000 MW of power for which the Telangana government and the former entered an agreement recently due to lack of transmission network, the officials said the Dabhol power plant was also yet to give its nod to supply of 800 MW of power to the State. If the State did not get power from above mentioned, Telangana would reel under severe power crisis till May this year.
In Hyderabad, the unofficial power cuts would be imposed depending on the demand and supply in peak hours. Once the power demand crosses 135 MU, official power cuts would come into force in the capital city. In district headquarters, outages would be four to six hours and six to eight hours in mandal headquarters. In the villages, power supply would be stopped for eight to 10 hours initially. In the peak summer, two more hours would be added in power cut schedule in all respective areas.
