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Power cut in many places

Special Correspondent

Grid loses 1,200 MW; power plants break down

HYDERABAD: Several places in the State, including some outlying areas of Hyderabad, had to go without power supply for nearly four hours on Wednesday as the APTransco lost an installed capacity of about 1,200 MW due to breakdown of nearly half-a-dozen power plants.

In rural areas, however, the duration of power cut has gone up to eight hours as they are already being deprived of power supply for four hours.

The major loss to the grid originated from Neyveli in Tamil Nadu where all the units were shut down following lignite shortage. As a result, Andhra Pradesh lost its entire share of 346 MW from this source. Similarly, another 220 MW was lost as 500 MW Central generation station at Talcher in Orissa tripped. Generation at both these stations is expected to be resumed only in the first week of December.

Technical snags caused a further loss of 350 MW from NTPC thermal station at Ramagundam and one unit at Kaiga Atomic Power Plant in Karnataka.

Joint Managing Director of APTransco K. Vijayanand said the State suddenly faced a shortage of 29 million units but it was able to make up the loss to the tune of 18 mu by immediately purchasing from West Bengal and Chhattisgarh and the NTPC’s National Vidyuth Vyapara Nigam Limited. He said the cut would be avoided during peak hours (6 p.m. to 10 p.m.) by operating Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar hydel stations for additional hours.

Unavoidable hardship

Regretting the imposition of power cut, joint managing director of APTransco K. Vijayanand appealed to the consumers to extend cooperation in bearing the unavoidable hardship. He said the cut would be lifted as and when the power plants resumed generation.

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