There was only a marginal improvement in the power supply in the state on Sunday despite the UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) having injected more than 1,600 MW additional power in the grid to ease the prevailing electricity crisis even as top officials held a meeting in Shakti Bhawan to monitor the situation.
The current electricity crisis continuing for around a month now is being attributed to an increased demand resulting from intensifying heatwave and due to reduced generation because of coal crunch in thermal plants on one hand and shutdown of some power production units due to technical glitches on the other.
“Though the UPPCL did arrange an additional power to the tune of more than 1,600 MW from various sources, this failed to improve the situation much on the first day on Sunday when the demand-supply gap still remained as high as 2,000 MW-2,500 MW resulting in load shedding in rural areas, semi-urban areas and tehsil-level towns up to 5-7 hours,” an official requesting anonymity said.
