Power crisis continues to haunt Andhra Pradesh due to severe shortage of coal and increasing demand from agriculture and domestic sectors, forcing the state government to continue with 50 percent supply to industrial sector, apart from continuing the power holiday once in a week to industries.
Though energy minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy announced a week ago that the restrictions in power supply would ease from May 1 due to additional power purchases by the state, there was no such respite to the consumers.
An official statement from the energy department said the daily demand for power in the state as on Sunday was 218.924 million units, which was met by resorting to purchase of 35.89 MU from the market, apart from the power generated from the thermal and hydel power stations of AP power generation corporation (APGenco), Central generating stations like NTPC and private power producers.
