KPDCL Managing Director Mussarat Islam said five 33 kV feeders out of 120 are presently under fault, while 76 out of 1118 HT 11 kV feeders were down, in view of heavy snowfall in parts of Electric Divisions Handwara, Baramulla & Kupwara
State power minister said the import capacity (available transfer capability limit) of Punjab from outside Punjab has been enhanced to 8800 MW which is likely to be enhanced in a day or two to 9000 MW.
Undeclared power cuts and frequent tripping have become a routine in the Union Territory (UT), particularly in the rural areas, even as summer is at its peak.
Almost 80 per cent of Kyiv residents on Monday faced power outages and water cuts as Russian missiles struck key infrastructure facilities.
Adani Power will commission a 1600 MW power project in Godda area of Jharkhand state and a dedicated transmission line to Bangladesh by Bijoy Dibosh (Victory Day), 16 Dec 2022.
Indian Railways is grappling with the problem of damaged wagons that is not only affecting its normal operations but also leading to delay in coal supplies. To manage the crisis the Railways has spent more than Rs 150 crore in repairing around 2000 damaged and dilapidated wagons over the last four months to augment coal movement to power plants, official data has revealed.
The weak and erratic monsoon has adversely affected agrarian areas across the State while the government is yet to declare any of the 30 districts in the State as drought-hit.
The target for 2022 is 16 per cent higher than the current year's supply amidst the peak demand.
Apart from this, 250 watt off grid solar power plants have been set up in the houses of one thousand BPL families in Pangi sub-division of Chamba district in December 2020 so that electrical crisis arising due to breakdown could be avoided, he added.
Haryana government linked these 202 villages to the Mahara Gaon, Jagmag Gaon Scheme, which aims at providing 24-hour uninterrupted power supply to the villagers, on the day of Sushasan Diwas (Good Governance Day) which is celebrated on 25 December to commemorate the birth anniversary of India's former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
