Amid depleting coal supplies, Punjab has further slipped into an acute electricity crisis due to the outage of two more power-generating units — one each of Talwandi Sabo and Ropar thermal plants.
Against the combined installed capacity of 5,680 MW at the five thermal plants in the state, only 3,327 MW power is being generated, even as the demand has already climbed to 7,500 MW. As a result, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited is resorting to unscheduled power cuts, especially in rural areas.
According to sources, one 660 MW unit of the Talwandi Sabo power plant halted generation due to leakage in its boiler. Already, another unit of the same capacity is undergoing repairs, bringing down the 1,980 MW plant’s generation capacity to just 660 MW.
