NEW DELHI: The national capital might be headed for an electricity crisis at a time when the sizzling summer season heat displays no signal of abating. Delhi govt has warned about a energy scarcity within the city because the thermal energy stations supplying electricity to Delhi are dealing with an issue within the supply of coal. Delhi will get 2,325 MW from coal-based producing vegetation and the provision is currently down to 1,355 MW. It may just contact a low of 490 MW, an enormous deficiency when the height demand is predicted to stay around 7,000 MW.
A apprehensive Satyendar Jain, Delhi’s energy minister, has written to the Centre about the possibility of town being adversely suffering from this sudden demand-supply gap. Saying that the thermal energy vegetation in Dadri and Badarpur have been dealing with a shortfall in coal supply, Jain wrote that it gave the impression “this coal scarcity is due to non-availability of transportation rakes/wagons with Indian Railways”. He requested Union minister for coal and railways Piyush Goyal to interfere and provides “fast attention” to the issue to stop load losing within the capital or major grid incidents.
Talking to journalists, Jain stated on Friday that the placement had to be resolved ahead of it got to that time. “Normally, we've coal reserves at the vegetation for around 15 days. But for the previous 15 days, we've had no reserve,” he stated.
A central authority respectable added, “The availability of energy from Badarpur, Dadri I and Dadri II vegetation has diminished by way of 970 MW. If the placement worsens, as is most likely, and Dadri I and II and one unit of Badarpur plant are closed down, the availability will pass down to a trifling 490 MW. This way the total supply to Delhi from those vegetation will pass down by way of 1,835 MW.”
Delhi’s height demand has already crossed 6,000 MW and the ability distribution corporations hinted it would even breach the 7,000 MW mark. “The height demand on May 24 closing 12 months used to be five,026 MW. This 12 months at the similar day, it used to be 6,029 MW, so we need to be ready for contingencies,’’ a discom govt stated.
This new drawback comes within the wake of some grid niggles. Two of the main grid lines feeding Delhi — one circuit of Agra-Gwalior 765 kV transmission line and each circuits of Agra-Jhatikara 765 kV transmission line — are under shutdown. A central authority respectable stated, “Due to this outage, energy being sourced from change assets under the ability change and bilaterals also will get curtailed.”
A apprehensive Satyendar Jain, Delhi’s energy minister, has written to the Centre about the possibility of town being adversely suffering from this sudden demand-supply gap. Saying that the thermal energy vegetation in Dadri and Badarpur have been dealing with a shortfall in coal supply, Jain wrote that it gave the impression “this coal scarcity is due to non-availability of transportation rakes/wagons with Indian Railways”. He requested Union minister for coal and railways Piyush Goyal to interfere and provides “fast attention” to the issue to stop load losing within the capital or major grid incidents.
Talking to journalists, Jain stated on Friday that the placement had to be resolved ahead of it got to that time. “Normally, we've coal reserves at the vegetation for around 15 days. But for the previous 15 days, we've had no reserve,” he stated.
A central authority respectable added, “The availability of energy from Badarpur, Dadri I and Dadri II vegetation has diminished by way of 970 MW. If the placement worsens, as is most likely, and Dadri I and II and one unit of Badarpur plant are closed down, the availability will pass down to a trifling 490 MW. This way the total supply to Delhi from those vegetation will pass down by way of 1,835 MW.”
Delhi’s height demand has already crossed 6,000 MW and the ability distribution corporations hinted it would even breach the 7,000 MW mark. “The height demand on May 24 closing 12 months used to be five,026 MW. This 12 months at the similar day, it used to be 6,029 MW, so we need to be ready for contingencies,’’ a discom govt stated.
This new drawback comes within the wake of some grid niggles. Two of the main grid lines feeding Delhi — one circuit of Agra-Gwalior 765 kV transmission line and each circuits of Agra-Jhatikara 765 kV transmission line — are under shutdown. A central authority respectable stated, “Due to this outage, energy being sourced from change assets under the ability change and bilaterals also will get curtailed.”
Delhi could be headed for an electricity crisis
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May 26, 2018
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