With temperature soaring, peak power demand in the national Capital on Thursday touched to 5,863 MW and expected to touch 6,079 MW in next few days. According to BSES official, Delhi's peak power demand in June may breach the 7,000 MW mark. last summers, it was recorded 6,526 MW, highest ever-recorded in the national capital.
Tata Power Delhi Distribution (Tata Power-DDl) which supplies power to over seven million consumers in North Delhi, registered1705 MW power demand on Wednesday. The demand is expected to touch 1750 MW in next few days, a senior Tata Power-DDl official said.
Sanjay Banga, CEO of Tata Power-DDl, said, "As the meteorological department has forecasted an extremely hot summers, we are expecting the peak power demand to reach 1850 MW in our area." "The demand will be met through our long-term tie-ups and other suitable arrangements amounting to around 2,200MW. Our power banking arrangements with other states will also contribute significantly in ensuring regular supply and will take care of any contingency requirements," he added. A senior BSES official said the power demand touched to 2,734 MW in BRPl areas and 1424 MW in BYPl area.
He further said arrangements have been firmed up by BRPl and BYPl to source adequate electricity to meet the power demand of their around 40 lakhs consumers.
"These arrangements include long term PPAs and banking arrangements with other states including Himachal Pradesh (425 MW), Uttar Pradesh (72 MW), Andhra Pradesh (50 MW), Sikkim (50 MW), Tamil Nadu (25 MW) and Bhutan (40 MW)," he said.
The BSES official further said that BSES discoms will get up to 665 MW of power through banking arrangements. "Additionally, around 150 MW of renewal energy from Himachal Pradesh and around 20 MW from Rajasthan will further boost the power arrangements. In case of unforeseen contingencies because of low generation and outages of power plants, the discoms will purchase short-term power from the exchange," he said.