Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 3: The Power Development Department has appealed the general public to use power judiciously by restricting their power load to bare minimum and to cooperate with the department. Due to extreme cold and foggy climatic conditions, the power demand has increased tremendously on one hand and self generation from Baghliar and other Hydel Power Projects of the state has come down to 150 MW and 935 MW against their capacity of 450 MW and 296 MW respectively due to lower river discharge leading to increased over drawl from Northern Grid. To maintain grid discipline repeated warnings are issued by NRLDC to restrict power load and unscheduled power cuts are enforced by Northern Grid by opening 220/132 KV lines. Opening of Kishanpur-Barn Line alone results in shutdown of seven grid stations namely Barn, Canal, Pounichak, Akhnoor, Jourian, Katra and Janipur. To tide over the situation additional power cuts are being enforced in unmetered as well as metered areas. The situation is likely to continue till the weather improves and the generation increases. |
