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Industrialists in Panipat claim that coupled with an increase in labour wages, the power breakdowns are costing them dearly.
A senior official of Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam said, “The entire northern India is facing power shortage due to failure of winter rains and less inflow in reservoirs of hydel power plants,’’ adding that things would improve only when the Yamunanagar power plant starts full production.
He said an abnormal increase in demand in all sectors has widened the gap between demand and availability of power, resulting in low grid frequency, which is the cause of unscheduled power cuts.
A spokesman for Haryana Power Utilities said all possible efforts are on to procure maximum power from all available sources even at higher prices to meet the demand. Referring to the state’s own power generating stations, he said one 110 MW unit of the thermal plant at Panipat has been taken up for renovation and upgrading, adding that all the three units of National Thermal Power Corporation Project, Ballabgarh, had been functional, but due to less availability of gas and liquid fuel, these units are producing about 64 lakh units against the normal supply of 95-100 lakh units daily. He claimed that power availability would improve within a fortnight after commercial operation of the first unit of the 300-MW thermal power project in Yamunanagar begins.
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