PATIALA: Amid the hot weather conditions and ongoing paddy season, the PSPCL on Thursday met an all-time record demand of 15,151 MW without any power cut. This is 6.6 per cent higher than the peak demand of 14207 MW during the paddy season last year.
Punjab was drawing 8826 MW from the northern grid and the state’s own gross generation was 6205 MW at the time of maximum demand. All the seven available thermal units in the state sector were running while all the private sector thermal units are also operating. Three out of four Ranjit Sagar units were running at the time of maximum demand.
