With the summer appearing to have arrived early this year, the private power discoms claim that they are all geared up to meet the power challenge to ensure that there is no disruption of power supply in the demanding summer months.
Collectively, the expected power demand of the city is anticipated to be around 6200 MW, according to experts. last summer, it was 5846 MW, slightly less than the peak power demand of 5925 MW, recorded during the summers of 2014.
Praveer Sinha, the CEO of Tata Power-Delhi Distribution limited (TPDDl), said TPDDl areas are expecting a demand of around 1850 MW in these summers. “To meet this demand, we have long-term tie-ups amounting to around 1700 MW. Apart from that, we also have capacity to meet demand of around 400 MW through banking. We had exported 400-500 MW of electricity in winter months with return in summer. We also have contingency backup in summers amounting to 200 MW to 300 MW,” he said.
Peak power demand in BRPl’ area of South and West Delhi, which had reached 2427MW during the summers of 2015, is expected to touch around 2563 MW this year. In BYPl’ area of East and Central Delhi, the peak power demand had reached 1366 MW last year. This year, it is expected to touch around 1476 MW.
“Arrangements have been firmed up by BRPl and BYPl to source adequate power to meet the peak power demand of its over 37 lakhs consumers during the ensuing summer months. These arrangements include long term PPAs and banking arrangements with other states,” said a BSES spokesperson.
“BRPl and BYPl will be getting 150 MW each from Jammu in Kashmir on Round the Clock (RTC) basis between May to September through banking arrangements. BYPl will additionally be getting 50 MW from Meghalaya. 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 added.