Power supply better now, but outages still continue in city

Gurgaon: The discom has been imposing power cuts across the city, but the duration of outages has come down in the last two days. In some areas of Gurgaon, no power cuts were imposed in the last 24 hours, while the rest of the city reported two to three hours of outages.
The city is likely to face more power cuts in the coming days as Haryana still has a shortage of supply. On Sunday, the state got 8,870 MW power while the demand was 9,288 MW — a shortage of 418 MW.
Haryana, which is reeling under a power crisis, has received more than 7,000 MW of power daily since April 18, while the shortage has been in the range of 200 MW to 500 MW on most days. The maximum shortage between April 18 to May 1 was reported on April 20, when the state had a demand of 8,846 MW while supply stood at 7,158 MW — a shortage of 1,288 MW. The next day, the state reported a shortage of 848 MW.
While supply has increased in the last two days, so has the demand. On April 30, the state received 9,191 MW of power against a demand of 9,701 (shortage of 510 MW). On May 1, it received 8,870 MW when it required 9,288 MW (410 MW shortage).
Power minister Ranjit Singh said supply will improve. “We are trying to bridge the gap between demand and supply,” said the minister, adding that power outages will stop soon, and the state will get uninterrupted power supply in the coming days.
“While Haryana is receiving supply of more than 7,000 MW of power for two weeks now, there is a shortage in supply,” said an official of National Load Dispatch Centre, a Union body in charge of scheduling and dispatch of electricity over inter-regional links.
Residents, meanwhile, said while outages have been reduced, they are still facing difficulties due to load shedding amid the ongoing heatwave.
Suman Mishra, a resident of Sector 51, said the situation was even worse last week as outages lasted for 8-10 hours. “It has improved in the last two days, but we are still facing power cuts,” Mishra said.
Aditi Sharma, a Sector 14 resident, said they are also facing voltage fluctuation issues. “We fear that our electrical appliances may get damaged due to fluctuations,” she said.
On April 29, discoms had announced scheduled outages for industrial, urban and rural areas due to the increasing gap between demand and supply of power in Haryana. In a notification, DHBVN had mentioned that due to increased demand and shortage of power in Haryana, load shedding has to be done as so to maintain the grid discipline.