The national capital has witnessed the lowest load-shedding for the month till June 19 as compared to the previous two years, according to Delhi Government data.
While the percentage of load-shedding with reference to energy consumption till June 19 for this year was 0.08 per cent, the same for 2017 was 0.10 per cent and that for 2016 was 0.23 per cent, it said.
The load-shedding during this period was 1.874 MUs this year, which was 2.195 MUs in 2017 and was 4.936 MUs in 2016.
On June 8, city’s power demand broke all previous records with the peak power demand reaching 6,934 MW at 3.28 pm, the highest ever recorded in the city. last summer, it was recorded at 6,526 MW.
The peak power demand had soared to 6,651 on June 1 this year and broke the previous record of 6,526 MW recorded on June 6, 2017.