Coal crunch, technical snags lead to power outage in Punjab
Punjab is facing acute power outage with its thermal plants either headed to deficiency of coal or hit by a snag owing to increase in load capacity, state officials said on Saturday.
Officials say since most of the plants have been left with fossil fuel storage, they are operating at a minimal capacity.
As a result, against the combined installed capacity of 5,680 MW at the five thermal plants, only 3,327 MW power is being generated.
With the demand peaking to over 7,500 MW, the Punjab State Power Corp Ltd is left with no option but to resort to unscheduled long power cuts, both in rural and urban areas.
