Peak power demand in the national Capital soared to the season's highest of 6,214 MW on Friday till 3: 27 pm.

A senior BSES official said that continuing with its rising trajectory, power demand clocked 6193 MW on Thursday night at 10:43 pm and piping the season’s previous high of 5985 MW recorded a day earlier.

“This record too was broken at 3:27 pm today (June 19) when Delhi’s peak power demand clocked 6214 MW.  In just 24 hours, Delhi’s peak power demand has increased by over three per cent,” he said.

On their part, BRPL and BYPL successfully met the peak power demand of 2690 MW and 1379 MW respectively. Last year, Delhi’s peak power demand had clocked 7409 MW. In BRPL’s area, it was 3211 MW and 1686 MW respectively.

After the end of the lock-down version 3 on May 17 and the easing of restrictions, power demand has started increasing and the gap narrowed. Since easing of restrictions on May 18, 2020, peak power demand has increased by around 50 per cent, he said.

The official further said that since June 1, 2020, power demand has increased by over 62 per cent. It was 3807 MW on June 1.

Ensuring reliable supply in any season is as much the function of proper power arrangements as also accurate demand forecast and robust distribution network. On all these aspects, BSES discoms are fully geared to ensure adequate power availability during the summer months, he added.

The official also said that arrangements have been firmed up by BSES discoms to source adequate electricity to meet the power demand of over 44 lakhs consumers. “These arrangements include long term PPAs and banking arrangements of upto 800 MW with other states. In case of unforeseen contingencies because of low generation and outages in power plants, the discoms will purchase short-term power from the exchange,” he said.

Being in essential services, BSES is always geared-up to ensure quality and reliable power supply to its consumers, he said, adding that the discoms are closely watching the evolving Coronavirus situation in the national Capital and taking all appropriate measures to ensure reliable power supply to our consumers without compromising the safety of our employees.