Power Minister says normalcy would be restored soon
Hyderabad, May 2, 2008The Minister for Energy Mohd.Ali Shabbier admitted that the power supply in the State had been precarious over the last couple of days due to the outage at several thermal power stations and normalcy would be restored shortly. He reviewed the situation with the senior officials of generation, transmission and distribution companies besides authorities of Singareni Collieries Company limited. It has been decided to increase hydel power generation at Srisailam to meet the increasing demand.
Speaking to the media, he said that there was a generation loss of 1563 MW due to outage of thermal stations. Some of them would be revived by tomorrow morning, he said while indicating that there still would be short fall of about 800 MW.
The minister said that the demand had gone up by 20 million units compared to the previous summer resulting in tripping of sub-stations. He added that the government is buying power from power trading companies.
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