Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi call for solidarity, asking Indians to switch off household lights at 9.00 pm on April 5, for nine minutes in the fight against Covid-1, power companies in the state, fearing an outage, requested people to switch off only light-emitting equipment during the 'lights off' exercise.
Chhattisgarh State Power Companies’ additional general manager and PRO Vijay Mishra in a statement said, doubts are being raised about what will happen if all the electrical equipment are shut down all at the same time.
“It might affect the power supply system across the country and result into a major power outage across the country,” Mishra said.
Mishra in the statement said, power engineers have asked people to switch off only light-emitting equipment in their houses. Other equipment like fans, ACs, refrigerators and should be kept switched on.
PM Modi, in a video-message on Friday, asked Indians to switch off their lights for nine minutes at 9pm on Sunday and hold up a light in a symbolic act to “challenge the darkness spread by the corona crisis.
The experts feel that along with household lights, all other electrical equipment is shut down across the country at the same time, then power supply load can increase or decrease and the national power grid may trip.
The best way to control such fluctuation, experts said to implement the call of the Prime Minister, is to switch off only bulbs, tube lights or other equipment that emits light.