Amid talk of 300 units of free electricity to each household, Punjab slipped into a power crisis on Tuesday as the 540-MW GVK power plant at Goindwal Sahib was shut with no coal to operate it. Besides, a 660-MW unit of the Talwandi Sabo power plant is also out of operation, cutting short the cumulative power generation by 1,200 MW.
Against the installed capacity of 5,680 MW of thermal power plants, only 3150 MW power is being generated as the Talwandi Sabo power plant also has critical coal stock. While one unit of the 1,980-MW Talwandi Sabo Power plant is out, the two were operating at reduced load and generating only 750MW as the plant has coal stock left for only one day of operation.
Rural areas reel under power cuts
