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Delhi NCR's Water Supply Badly Hit Owning To Long Power Outages.35 Power Lines Trip Of Northern GridBy Archie, Section Civic Problems in Delhi
Delhi'ites should gear up for a dark powerless summer ahead. Long drawn outages seem to be back and the city got a taste of it on Sunday.
It was the second time in 72 hours that Delhi and many parts of north India plunged into darkness in the early hours of Sunday on account of major disturbance in the Northern Grid. The Capital went without power for 12 hours and normal supply was restored only by mid noon. Adjoining areas like Gurgaon, Faridabad, Noida and Ghaziabad also remained in the dark for the better part of Sunday morning.
The Sunday story
Rajghat 135 MW Installed Capacity.Actual Generation On Sunday was 5MW. ** Figures taken from State Load Dispatch Centre at 5.20 p.m. on Sunday What Caused The outages?
* Smog that has high moisture content deposited on the insulators of power lines causing them to trip.
Could It Have Been Avoided?
Union power secretary Anil Razdan called an emergency meeting on Sunday after the partial collapse. In the meeting, it was decided that conventional insulators would be replaced with polymer insulators on all vulnerable lines in Delhi and the NCR before November. Besides, officials have been directed to start cleaning on Dadri-Mandaula, Bawana-Hissar, Rihand-Dadri power line. Delhi Transco - the government utility that transmits power in the Capital - has been directed to start cleaning work on Mandola Bawana circuits.
Heavy fog deposited on the insulators resulted in tripping of 35 power lines in the Northern Grid. A ripple effect was felt in the Capital where six transmission lines tripped. Rail lines and water supply was disrupted. While the northern region reeled under 4000 MW shortfall, Delhi had a shortage of 1300 MW "Heavy fog in western UP, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi caused the tripping. It is completely unprecedented for this time of the year. Our staff is working on a war footing to clean the insulators," said an official of Power Grid Corporation of India Limited. In the Capital, three of the city's five power plants - GTPS, Rajghat and Pragat - were ftmetioning to half its capacity Areas like Dwarka, Palam, Janakpuri, Paschim Vihar, Pitampura, Ashok Vihar, Patparganj, Mayur Vihar remained without power for 12 hours. In south Delhi, areas like Sriniwaspuri, Kalkaji, Greater Kailash, Alakhnanda and C.R. Park faced cuts every thirty minutes for almost 10 hours. Experts said the power situation in the city during the coming months would continue to be grim. "Though we are anticipating a demand of 4400 MW, the private power utilities have arranged just 3300 MW power till now. So to start with Delhi will be short of 1000 MW God help us if the demand goes beyond 4400 MW," said an official with the power ministry. People are agitated. "The government is taking us for a ride. How long will this go on. Since the past one week, we are facing six hour power cuts every day," said Kavita Singh, a Dwarka resident. Source:Hindustan Times,March-10-2008
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