Power situation in state grim
5 units at 3 thermal plants shut due to snags, coal shortage
Manish Sirhindi
Tribune News Service

Panipat, March 29
The power situation in the state has got grim with five units at three major thermal power plants across the state shut due to technical problems and coal shortage.

According to sources, two units at the Panipat thermal power plant, one at Yamunanagar and two at Khedar are out of order due to which the availability of power has gone down significantly.

Units 3 and 4 at the Panipat thermal power plant had to be shut after the boiler reported some leakage there. The sources said it would take at least 24 hours to repair the boiler.

The unit at Yamunanagar had also developed some technical fault while the two units at Khedar have not been generating any power for the past 18 days due to non-availability of coal. The supply of coal had been affected due to the Jat agitation.

As of today, the power demand in the state was 4,750 MW. The state was overdrawing 190 lakh units from the northern grid. Its own generation was 1,246 MW against an installed capacity of 3,230 MW.

According to the sources, the Khedar plant was likely to resume generation as soon as coal was received there. It would take about eight hours to restart generation at the two units after coal was crushed and put in mills, the sources said.

Meanwhile, some cities in the state are witnessing power cuts of over three hours.