The power woes in Punjab continues as the state is witnessing all time high power demand due to prolonged dry spell, increase in demand of power from agricultural sector and reduced power availability due to low reservoir levels and reduced generation from hydro power stations including BBMB and outage of units of Talwandi Sabo Power Limited (TSPL) Mansa.
To bridge the gap between demand and supply, PSPCL on Saturday said it has been constrained to impose power regulatory measures on industrial consumers.
CMD, A.Venu Prasad said that keeping in view of persistent demand of the industrial consumers of the state, Punjab State Power Corporation Limited has relaxed power regulatory measures on general category LS consumers having sanctioned contract demand up to 1000 KVA with effect from Saturday.
Industrial consumers have now been allowed to operate up to 100 KVA of load, while the earlier exemption limit was only up to 50 KVA only. This shall increase the load on the PSPCL system by about 600 MW. The CMD said that PSPCL has arranged to purchase 752 MW power at the rate of 3.08 Paise per unit for July 11.
He informed that on Saturday peak demand was recorded at 12500 MW and PSPCL supplied nearly 8 hours power supply to the agriculture sector. He also said that due to tripping of TSPCL thermal unit generation to the extent of 1980 MW was lost.