The first major power outage in the Capital this summer spelt troubles for the Delhiites on Thursday. Technical snag in two major power generation plants resulted in a cut in electricity supply to the national Capital to the tune of around 600 mega watt.
Officials did not rule out the possibility of further outages on Friday. Several areas in South and East Delhi went without power after these units failed on Wednesday night. Some of these areas included Mayur Vihar, laxmi Nagar, Preet Vihar, Vasant Kunj and Vasant Vihar among others. They complained there was no electricity for two to three hours during the night.
Officials said NTPC’s Dadri thermal power plant developed snag late Wednesday night resulting a cut in supply of around 400 mega watt to Delhi. They said the city did not get 210 mega watt of power from the Badarpur thermal power plant as one of its generation units was also down due to technical problem. “Delhi is getting around 600 MW of less power due snags in the Dadri Thermal plant 2 and BTPS. While Dadri Thermal plant 2 developed a snag late last night, BTPS developed it this morning,” the officials said. They, however, said the distribution companies have bought additional power and there was no shortage of electricity due to cut in supply from the two power plants.
Meanwhile, Delhi’s maximum power demand on Thursday reached 4,611 MW. last year, the power demand at this time of the year was around 4,500 MW.