Punjab’s thermal power plants resume generating power

Punjab’s thermal power plants have started power generation. Informing this, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) chairman-cum-managing director A Venu Prasad on Wednesday said that the dreadful situation and apprehensions of the public about the possibility of black out in Punjab was averted due to timely decisions taken by the state power utility.

Prasad said that despite nearly two months long ‘Rail Roko’ agitation by farmers in Punjab, PSPCL has managed the entire situation without any load shedding on commercial and industrial consumers, “though minimum possible demand side management was carried out by way of curtailing power to agriculture sector and through minimum possible imposition of power cuts on domestic consumers”.