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Power cut announced

Special Correspondent

Domestic sector most affected by demand-supply gap

HYDERABAD: The AP Transco on Tuesday began imposing power cut affecting consumers, mostly in the domestic sector, following a widening demand-supply gap.

The utility, however, called the cut "regulated supply" or load-shedding which implies that the cut will be resorted to as and when the grid frequency falls below the stipulated cycles without any announcement about the timings and the areas to be affected.

Coming close on the heels of the replacement of the top technical officials of APTransco on Monday, the formal announcement of the cut by the utility comes as an unpleasant experience to the consumer since the monsoon this year has been vigorous.

Hike in demand

The APTransco attributed the demand-supply gap to the steep hike in demand which reached an all-time high of 175 million units a day following a spurt in agriculture load and outage of seven thermal stations resulting in a loss of 1,350 MW capacity.

According to information received by Vidyuth Soudha, farmers are resorting to mass operation of the pump sets without a respite to take advantage of the improved groundwater situation. Over 35 per cent of the power generated is claimed by farmers thus.

The peak demand on Monday reached 8,100 MW which was catered to by increasing generation at Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar. Also, the daily drawal from the central stations was increased to 18 million units at an additional cost of Rs. 8.75 crores a day.

To cope with the situation in Andhra Pradesh, the Southern Regional Load Despatch Centre, Bangalore, is importing power from other regions.

A senior Transco official said a 500 MW unit of Simhadri project developed boiler problem necessitating emergency shutdown. Similarly, a 210-MW unit of the Vijayawada Thermal Station too stopped generation following a technical snag.

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