Andar Ki Baat: Central government unable to resolve electricity issue?
- 5 years ago
Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung on Friday said residents of Delhi may continue to face planned blackouts in the coming week.
He said the repairs on the power infrastructure, which was damaged in the thurnderstorm last week, were bound to take more time. "Before the storm struck, we were generating about 5,000 MW of electricity, which was reduced to 1,000 MW (due to the storm). You can imagine what we went through, worried that the entire city will be plunged into darkness. We are now producing 4,600-4,700MW. The problem is that some big towers and lines fell in the storm and repairing them will take some time. Due to rising temperature, the demand for power has shot up to 6,000MW, which we cannot meet. So, there could be blackouts for another three to four days to cope with the crisis," Jung said.
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He said the repairs on the power infrastructure, which was damaged in the thurnderstorm last week, were bound to take more time. "Before the storm struck, we were generating about 5,000 MW of electricity, which was reduced to 1,000 MW (due to the storm). You can imagine what we went through, worried that the entire city will be plunged into darkness. We are now producing 4,600-4,700MW. The problem is that some big towers and lines fell in the storm and repairing them will take some time. Due to rising temperature, the demand for power has shot up to 6,000MW, which we cannot meet. So, there could be blackouts for another three to four days to cope with the crisis," Jung said.
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