The industrial units of the State faced the burnt of increased power demand and reduced supply from the central pool on Friday.
Due to the receding monsoon the demand for power in the State has suddenly increased as dry weather prevails in State with increasing minimum and maximum temperatures.
On Friday the demand for power reached at 38 Million Units (MU) which is
higher than the normal demand of 36 MUs.
The spokesperson of Uttarakhand Power Corporation (UPCl) Madhusudan said that the State received only 10.78 MU of power from the central pool against a normal supply of 16 MU. The UPCl retorted to a power cut of three hours in the non continuous industry of SIDCUl Haridwar, two hours in the industrial units of Haridwar, Udham Singh Nagar, and Pantnagar SIDCUl on Friday. In additional to them the rural areas of the Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar
districts also suffered an outage of two hours.
The hydro power stations of the State are generating much less power than their total capacity. The 198 MW Kalagarh and 42 MW Khatima power stations are not generating any power from many days.
Due to a snag in one of its machines the 304 MW Maneri Bhali Phase II power station also generated 70 MW less power on Thursday.
To get over the production shortfall the State Government has entered into a power purchase agreement with the neighbouring Himachal Pradesh (HP). The state is purchasing 2.5 MU of power worth Rs1 Crore daily from HP.
Madhusudan said that the two transformers of 40 and 20 MVA which were damaged due to silt caused by the flooding of Khatima based lohia Hydro power station were restored on Friday and uplinked with the 132 KV line. The Power Transmission Corporation of Uttarakhand (PITCUl) and UPCl jointly worked on restoring the
supplies from the lohia hydro power station.