Increasing demand, dwindling generation and recurrent glitches in the overloaded transmission and distribution networks have all triggered a power crisis in Uttar Pradesh amid the intense heat wave conditions.
The crisis is more acute in villages and small towns that often face emergency load shedding for 3 to 5 hours every day in addition to the frequent power disruptions caused by local faults.
The district headquarters and bigger cities, which are still exempted from official rostering, are also feeling the heat because of frequent damages of overloaded transformers and melting of overheated and overburdened underground cables and overhead lines, all resulting in moderate to severe rostering.
