The national capital’s peak power demand broke all records late on Thursday nightas Delhi’s power demand clocked 7070 MW, the highest ever in the month of May.
According to sources in discoms, the capital city’s power demand continues its northwards climb, creating new records along the way. Last night at 11:24 pm, the
city’s peak power demand not only clocked the season’s highest of 7070 MW, but also the highest ever in the month of May.
“The highest peak demand on Friday was recorded at 6,943 that is also likely to shoot past 7,000 MW late in the night,” discom official said. “It’s only the fourth year in Delhi’s history when the capital's peak power demand has breached the 7000 MW. It breached the 7000 mark for the first time in 2018 (July 10), when it clocked 7016 MW.
The following year (2019), it clocked 7409 MW (July 2), the highest ever recorded in the history of Delhi. In 2020, it did not cross the 7,000 MW and peaked at 6314 MW. In 2021 (July 2), the city’s peak power demand clocked 7323 MW,” he said.
“This year, the expected peak power demand of around 8200 MW is an increase of around 285 per cent over the peak power demand of 2879 MW in 2002,” he said.
“The city’s peak power demand has increased by 10 per cent since May 1. Since April 1, Delhi’s peak power demand has increased by over 58 per cent,” he informed. “This is the 15th time in 20 days of May that the national capital’s peak power demand has crossed 6000 MW,” he stated.
As per a senior BSES official, the strength of the network is also critical to ensuring a reliable power supply. BSES discoms have ramped up the network capacity by deploying both conventional and innovative solutions.
While informing about the steps taken by the BSES to ramped up the network capacity, he said, the discoms invested in substantial resources to strengthen the network and undertook several unique measures to ensure reliable power supply during the summer months.