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Government asks power plants to not go for Planned Outage in April & May

United News of India (UNI) — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:30:19 +0000

New Delhi, March 14: Amid forecasts of a hot summer and peak power demand reaching 230 GW, the government has directed thermal power plants (TPPs) to not go for any planned outage during April and May this year.

In written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, Power Minister RK Singh listed out various measures taken by the government to avert power crisis and noted that coal stock available at coal-fired thermal plants is sufficient to run the plant for 12 days at a requirement of 85% plant load factor (PLF).

“As on 05.03.2023, the coal stock available at these TPPs is about 34 MT, which is sufficient to run the plant for 12 days at a requirement of 85% PLF. This is about 50% of the coal stocking norms issued by Central Electricity Authority,” the Minister said.

As part of advance planning ahead of summer, Ministry of Power (MoP) last month issued directions to imported coal based plants under Section 11 of Electricity Act to operate and generate power to their full capacity.

“MoP has directed thermal power plants to not take any planned outage during April and May 2023,” the Minister said.

He also said that MoP has approved a mechanism for operationalisation of around 5000 MW gas based power plants for 18 days during crunch period (Apr-May 2023).

State-run power producer NTPC is planning to import around 5.4 million tons of coal for its group stations to meet domestic coal supply shortage during first half of Financial Year 2023-24, according to the written reply.

Pakistan suffers major power outage after grid failure

Aryan Jakhar — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 06:41:05 +0000

According to the federal energy ministry, Pakistan had nationwide power outages early Monday owing to a severe failure in its national grid.

“According to initial information, at about 7:34 AM (local time) today, the National Grid experienced a loss of frequency, that caused a major breakdown. A swift work is on to revive the system,” the ministry said in a statement.

All major cities, including Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore, and Peshawar, were without power.

When systems were turned on Monday morning in the southern portion of the nation between the cities of Jamshoro and Dadu, a frequency difference was recorded, according to electricity minister Khurrum Dastagir on Geo TV station.

“There was a fluctuation in voltage and the systems were shut down one by one. This is not a major crisis,” Dastagir said.

Some grids in the nation had already been restored, according to the ministry.

Power Outage engulfs many parts of Mumbai into Darkness

Aryan Jakhar — Tue, 10 May 2022 05:45:39 +0000

On Monday evening, many parts of Mumbai were plunged into darkness due to a “technical problem.” The interruption follows a string of power outages in the financial capital over the last month. Owing to a severe electricity deficit that prompted the state discom MSEDCL to implement load-shedding in numerous districts of Maharashtra.

Bandra, Santacruz, and Chembur, as well as parts of downtown Mumbai like Dadar, experienced a 15-minute interruption starting at 2130 hours. Adani Electricity Mumbai stated rival Tata Power’s equipment failed at the Dharavi receiving station, affecting 1.8 lakh of its customers.

Tata Power attempted to blame the Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company, stating that the power outage lasted approximately 7 minutes.

“There was an incident of power tripping today for a very short period of time due to tripping of 220kV MSETCL OLTS protection at their Trombay Receiving Station… giving shutdown to 160 MegaWatts load at Tata Power’s Dharavi Receiving Station,” an official spokesperson said.

The state-run Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking. Which had experienced several outages in areas served by it. Had said about ten days ago that the ongoing heatwave is causing extra demand from consumers. Which is causing disruptions because supply cannot keep up with demand.

“Due to large increase in the temperature. People are using Air Conditioner, coolers, fans and more, resulting in heavy demand. And consumption of electricity due to which. It may affect network and generates cable or feeder faults across the island city”. A spokesperson for the civic body-run undertaking had said.

Since the state government admitted to a 3,000 MW shortfall in February. The city has experienced outages on many occasions during the previous month.