Haryana: Power crisis forces more blackouts, 2nd in a week

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GURUGRAM: For the second time in a week, the power shortage that Haryana is facing triggered two blackouts in Gurugram on Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon.
Tuesday night’s blackout, caused by power supply being stopped from the thermal power plant at Panipat, lasted from 10.50pm to 11.30pm in Gurugram and adjoining areas. On Wednesday afternoon, the 220kV substation at Daultabad had to be shut down, cutting off power in circle 1 (half the city) for 45 minutes from 3.15pm.

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The Daultabad substation supplies power to substations in Gurugram village, New Colony, Kadipur and sectors 5 and 37.
From these substations, power is further supplied to houses in Old Gurugram, sectors 4 to 23, Palam Vihar, Sector 37 and parts of colonies developed along the Dwarka Expressway.
Last Wednesday, the power supply deficit had prompted the power distribution utility to snap electricity supply to the city twice to avert a breakdown. The first one was from 12.40am to 1.25am, while the other lasted around half an hour from 6am.
Because of the coal supply crunch and an ongoing dispute over rates with Adani Power, the state is facing a shortfall of around 2,000MW daily. According to discom officials, Adani Power used to supply around 1,400 MW to Haryana. Due to a rise in the price of imported coal, the company hiked the power price from Rs 3.4 to Rs 6.25 per unit, which the state government has objected to, saying it is against the power purchase agreement the two parties signed. Haryana has a 25-year power purchase agreement with Adani Power.
Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar recently held a meeting with the private supplier to resolve the dispute, but supply hasn’t resumed till now.
On Tuesday, Khattar chaired a meeting of the electricity department to discuss the measures required to resolve the supply crisis and prevent outages.
Ajay Yadav, who was the power minister during the previous Congress-led government, said the government should issue a wh-ite paper on the power situation. “Adani Power has signed agreements with the state. Not supplying power is a breach of agreement, but the state government has not taken any steps in this regard and is instead planning to purchase power from different sources. No additional power generation capacity has been created in the state under the present government,” he added.
Yadav also alleged that there has been no progress on setting up new power plants or adding new units to existing power plants.
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