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Under the third phase of the Punjab government’s scheme to support paddy sowing, farmers are being provided with 8 hours of continuous electricity every day. Due to this, the demand for electricity has increased very rapidly. At around 2 pm today, the demand for electricity reached 16,836 MW, which is the highest figure so far.
A senior engineer of PSPCL said on condition of anonymity that if the demand continues to increase in this manner, power cuts may have to be imposed to save the grid and keep the demand below 17,000 MW.
Last Monday, the demand was 15,640 MW
In the last one week alone, the state’s electricity demand has seen a tremendous jump. Earlier, due to low heat, the demand was around 11,000 MW. But now it has increased rapidly due to heat and paddy sowing. On Monday, the demand had reached 15,640 MW and PSPCL had supplied 3295 lakh units of power.
Power demand increased over last year
Today’s demand is also much higher than last year. Last year, the demand on this day was 13,761 MW, while today it has reached 16,836 MW. The state can get a maximum of 10,400 MW of power from the northern grid and under ideal conditions, the availability from its own sources is only 6,500 MW.
All government and private thermal plants in Punjab are working at full capacity. In the government sector, 680 MW is being generated from Ropar, 830 MW from Lehra Mohabbat and 505 MW from Goindwal. In the private sector, 1325 MW is being generated from Rajpura and 1860 MW from Talwandi Sabo. All the hydro plants including Ranjit Sagar are operational during the afternoon.
