After experiencing heavy thundershowers, several areas in the Capital city witnessed power outage in Dehradun on Monday. However, department officials told that the lineman and mobile teams were on their toes for rectifying the technical errors to ensure the disrupted free power to the consumers.
The incessant rain witnessed since Monday morning also came with a couple of problems for the power department to ensure the disrupted free electricity to the consumers.
The power supply was resumed in most of the areas except few colonies where testing of lines continued till late evening. Department sources revealed that in order to reduce the overload on the grid, NRlDC has instructed to reduce the load on Meerut-Muzzarfarnagar transmission line.
With an aim to reduce 300 megawatt load on Muzzarfarnagar—Puhana—Rishikesh 400 KV line, PTCUl has strictly implemented four hours of load shedding in the rural areas of Haridwar district and two hours of power cut in Roorkee town.
Unable to meet the growing demand of electricity as the Chill hydro power project failed to generate electricity on Monday, Uttarakhand Power Corporation limited (UPCl) implemented nearly three hours of power cut in the small towns of Garhwal division of Uttarakhand and half an hour of power cut in the other small towns of the State.
One of the department sources who wished anonymity told The Pioneer that the inclement weather has always made adverse affect on the transmission lines and transformers. He said that removing the technical snags including tightening of lose connections is the only solution for ensuring the round the clock power to the consumers.
However, he claimed that the power supply was resumed in most of the areas except few colonies especially those situated in remote areas of the district.