Peak power demand in the national Capital soared to the season’s highest of 6,214 MW on Friday till 3: 27 pm.
A senior BSES official said that continuing with its rising trajectory, power demand clocked 6193 MW on Thursday night at 10:43 pm and piping the season’s previous high of 5985 MW recorded a day earlier.
“This record too was broken at 3:27 pm today (June 19) when Delhi’s peak power demand clocked 6214 MW. In just 24 hours, Delhi’s peak power demand has increased by over three per cent,” he said.
On their part, BRPL and BYPL successfully met the peak power demand of 2690 MW and 1379 MW respectively. Last year, Delhi’s peak power demand had clocked 7409 MW. In BRPL’s area, it was 3211 MW and 1686 MW respectively.