Power demand in city breaks all records
12 July 2014 12:42 AM GMT
Power consumption of the national capital broke all records on Friday. The highest power demand was recorded 5,810 mw at about 3.58 pm, 21 mw higher than Thursday’s peak power demand.
Despite statements of the discoms about adequate preparations to meet the rising power demand, unscheduled outages were reported from many areas of the city. Irked over continuous outages a group of angry residents allegedly attacked the office of the discom in east Delhi’s Jagatpuri area.
At Shaheen Bagh area of Jamia Nagar, residents protested against outages and alleged partiality in load shedding. ‘Why only Jamia Nagar residents are facing 8-12 hours long power cuts. Somebody must reply to our queries,’ Asdar Ali, a resident of Shaheen Bagh area said. Shaheen Bagh’s RWA member Ansar Ansari said: ‘The President-Rule is worse than Sheila Dikshit led government.’
All helplines are useless and are not easily accessible for consumers during the night. BSES (Rajdhani) -39999707 and BSES (Yamuna) consumers’ helpline 39999808 do not easily get connected.
The same situation was reported from Bindapur area of West Delhi where the government offices are running on electric diesel generator sets as there is no power supply for 18-20 hours.
‘Will anyone believe that we are residents of the capital of India? Is this what we deserve? Think about the situation of residents of rest of the country. Will
some politician act on it without lying,’ said Savita Sharma, vice-president RWA, Binda Pur. The power department officials said that the peak demand may cross the mark of 6,100 during this summer season.
Despite statements of the discoms about adequate preparations to meet the rising power demand, unscheduled outages were reported from many areas of the city. Irked over continuous outages a group of angry residents allegedly attacked the office of the discom in east Delhi’s Jagatpuri area.
At Shaheen Bagh area of Jamia Nagar, residents protested against outages and alleged partiality in load shedding. ‘Why only Jamia Nagar residents are facing 8-12 hours long power cuts. Somebody must reply to our queries,’ Asdar Ali, a resident of Shaheen Bagh area said. Shaheen Bagh’s RWA member Ansar Ansari said: ‘The President-Rule is worse than Sheila Dikshit led government.’
All helplines are useless and are not easily accessible for consumers during the night. BSES (Rajdhani) -39999707 and BSES (Yamuna) consumers’ helpline 39999808 do not easily get connected.
The same situation was reported from Bindapur area of West Delhi where the government offices are running on electric diesel generator sets as there is no power supply for 18-20 hours.
‘Will anyone believe that we are residents of the capital of India? Is this what we deserve? Think about the situation of residents of rest of the country. Will
some politician act on it without lying,’ said Savita Sharma, vice-president RWA, Binda Pur. The power department officials said that the peak demand may cross the mark of 6,100 during this summer season.
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