The industrial units of the Garhwal region and rural areas of the State faced major power cuts on Tuesday due to sudden shut down of 220 KV Puhana—Roorkee line.
The Northern Regional load Dispatch Centre (NRlDC) which is responsible to ensure integrated operation of power system in northern region gave instructions of sudden shut down of 220 KV Puhana Roorkee line on Tuesday.
The shutdown was necessitated due replacement of an insulator by the Power Grid Corporation of India in
Puhana plant.
The Uttarakhand Power Corporation limited (UPCl) spokesperson said that the shutdown of the line
was taken from 12.30 pm -3.30 pm and resulted in a power outage of 3 hours in the non continuous industry of Garhwal and 2.30 hours in the rural areas of Haridwar
district.
Similarly Jwalapur and Bahadarabad faced a cut
of 2 hours while the residents of Kotdwar town faced an
outage of 1.30 hours on Tuesday.
The shortage in generation from the hydro power stations of the state continued to hit the state with these stations contributing only 19.23 Million Units (MU) of power
on Monday.
To meet the requirement the UPCl is purchasing 2.5 MU of power from neighbouring Himachal Pradesh.