The residents of Vikas Nagar area would face power outage from July 23 to August 7 due to the upgradation work including replacement of old transformers in the 33/11 KV Vikas Nagar sub station. The spokesperson of Uttarakhand Power Corporation limited (UPCl) Madhusudan said power supply from the 11 KV Town and 11 KV Enfield feeders would be totally or partially affected for 17 days from 9 am to 4 pm.
The power generation from the 198 MW Kalagarh and 40 MW Khatima hydro power stations remained affected due to silt on Monday also. A mechanical fault caused decline in the Maneri Bhali Phase II power station on Monday as only 57 MW power was generated against a normal capacity of 87 MW. The power generation was affected due to leakage in the seal of Machine number 2 of Maneri Bhali Phase II.
Due to this the UPCl undertook a power cut of 1 hour in the rural areas of Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar districts. The state received 21.17 MU of power from its Hydro power stations on Tuesday.