Although the State power department is regularly procuring electricity in order to meet with the demand in the State, the department faced the shortage of nearly 12 million units of electricity in the last month and curtailed the gap between demand and supply of electricity through tender purchase system in the last month.
After blaming the less power generation in the State run hydro power projects, the department officials told that the department has also concurred for procuring electricity in order to meet with the demand of electricity in the State. The shortage of electricity continues in the Garhwal and Kumaon divisions with the power generation in the Himalayan rivers has been hovering around seven million unit per day.
Despite the fact the State power department is procuring electricity through tenders in order to meet with the daily demand of electricity, the average shortfall of electricity was reported 2.16 million units of electricity in the last month. The figures compiled by the State power department clearly highlighted that the average availability of the electricity was nearly 20 million units against the average demand of electricity which was nearly 32 million units of electricity in the state in the last month. In order to meet with the demand of electricity in the State, Uttarakhand Power Corporation limited procured nearly 8 million units of electricity on an average in the last month in order to curtail gap the between the demand and availability in the State.