Delhi staring at power outage, urges Centre to ensure adequate coal supply

The Delhi government has expressed its concern over the possible shortage of coal in power plants that supply electricity to the national capital and has written a letter to the Central Government urging it to ensure adequate coal supplyDelhi Power Minister Satyendar Jain held an emergency meeting at Delhi Secretariat in this context on Thursday and also wrote a letter to the Central Government requesting its intervention so as to provide enough coal for the power plants supplying electricity to the national capitalAt present there is a shortage of coal in various thermal stations supplying electricity National Thermal Power Corporation NTPCs DadriII and Jhajjar Aravalli both power plants were established primarily to meet the power requirement in Delhi However there is very little stock of coal left even in these power plants Jain said in a statementIn NTPCs DadriII power plant only a days worth of stock left and in Jhajjar Aravalli only 78 days worth of stock is left as per the Delhi governmentThe DadriII Unchahar Kahalgaon Farakka and Jhajjar power plants in Delhi supply 1751 MW of electricity per day officials said in todays emergency meetingNoting that Delhi gets the maximum supply of 728 MW from DadriII Power Station while 100 MW from Unchahar Power Station officials said that in such a situation due to disruption of power supply from these two power stations there may be a problem in 24 hours power supply to many essential institutions including Delhi Metro and HospitalsAs per Delhi government data the Unchahar power plant has two days worth of stock left Kahalgaon has 35 days worth of stock left and Farakka has five days worth of stock leftAccording to the daily coal report of the National Power Portal there is an acute shortage of coal at these power stations of NTPCJain said that the Delhi government is monitoring the situation closely and making every possible effort to ensure that people do not face power outages in some areas of the national capitalPresently 25 per cent to 30 per cent of the electricity demand in Delhi is being met through these power stations which are facing a coal shortage he addedThese power stations play an important role in preventing blackouts in some parts of Delhi and are also essential to ensure the continuous supply of electricity to DMRC hospitals and to the people of Delhi in the upcoming summer season The Delhi Government has made an appeal to the Center to intervene and provide for an adequate supply of coal in the power plants that supply electricity to Delhi in case there is a shortage to ensure that people in Delhi receive an unrestricted 24 hour supply of electricity Jain saidFor the first time in April Delhis peak power demand clocked 6000 megawatt MW as the unabated heatwave continues to push the power demand to newer highsOn Wednesday the power demand was 5786 MW and it has increased by around 37 per cent in just 24 hours Peak power demand in the BRPL area of South and West Delhi today clocked 2549 MW and 1375 MW in the BYPL area of East and Central Delhi as per the data by the discomsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever