Madhya Pradesh Power Management Company on Friday clarified that the power supply situation is improving constantly in State. Madhya Pradesh is now getting 100 MW more power from the Central sector while the state’s power plants have increased generation by 300 MW.
According to the MD of the Company and Chairman of all three Power Distribution Companies in the State, Manu Shrivastava, the state has started getting 2050 MW against its share of 3735 MW power from Central Sector. Meanwhile, Power Generating Company’s thermal power plants are now generating 1600 MW power.
During previous days, Madhya Pradesh was getting 1950 MW power from Central Sector while its thermal power plants were generating 1300 MW power. In this way, power supply situation in the state has improved by 400 MW. The power supply situation is constantly increasing in the state. Every possible effort is being made to ensure supply of power to consumers as per demand.
Similarly, power is also being received from 600 MW unit of Singaji thermal power project. JP Nigari’s newly constructed 660 MW unit will also start generating power in next few days. State’s power supply situation will improve further with start of power generation by these units to their full capacity.
The main reasons for ever increasing power demand in the state at present are weak monsoon and constant increase in Kharif, especially paddy area requiring more power for irrigation. Paddy area in the State was 15.8 lakh hectares in year 2010 which has increased to 20.87 lakh hectares in year 2014.
The Power Management Company has informed that power demand as on August 21, 2013 was 970 lakh units, which has reached upto 1690 lakh units on August 21 this year registering an increase of 74 percent in power demand compared to last year. Power demand from August 15 to 21 in year 2013 was 4500 MW, which has now increased to 6175 MW in the corresponding period this year. The night-time peak power demand has increased by unprecedented 3000 MW compared to last year.