Punjab State Power Corporation Limited, the state’s power utility, has assessed a financial loss of around Rs 25 crores as a series of heavy storms hit different parts of Punjab on June 10, 11 and 13 causing massive damages to the state’s power transmission and distribution infrastructure.
PSPCL chairman-cum-managing director A Venu Prasad on Thursday said that more than 15,000 workers have, so far, addressed more than 1.8 lakhs power complaints affecting more than 50 lakh consumers across Punjab, mainly from Patiala, Kapurthala, Faridkot, Bathinda, Gurdaspur, Khanna, Ropar, Mohali, Sangrur, Barnala, due to destruction caused by heavy storms in the past two weeks.
The storms resulted in breakdown of around 900 of 11 kV and 66 kV feeders damaging around 20 66 kV towers, more than 13,000 poles, around 2500 transformers and more than 100 kms of conductor, besides other associated equipment and accessories.
Prasad said that with the continuous 24x7 monitoring, systematic patrolling of feeders and clearing of lines, PSPCL has been able to restore power supply of majority of the affected area within 72 hours. PSPCL consumers, especially in rural areas, also came forward to help PSPCL in all possible ways, he added.