MUMBAI: The peak power demand in Mumbai was at an all-time high of 3971 megawatts (MW) on Thursday afternoon, surpassing the previous day’s record high figure of 3968MW.
Experts said with the rising temperature and humidity in the city, the peak demand may soon touch the 4000MW-mark. On Thursday, the maximum temperature hovered around 34 degrees Celsius and the relative humidity recorded by the IMD Colaba and Santacruz weather stations were 72% and 61%, respectively.
There were not many cases of power cuts as reported on Wednesday. Citizens tweeted from parts of the city, including Bandra and Malad, to register complaints of outages, which power utility firms said were due to “local cable faults”.
