Most Chennaiites get respite from power outages

CHENNAI: Wednesday night was largely power cut-free in most parts off Chennai thought electricity consumption reached 90.3 million units.
There were interruptions in power supply on Monday and Tuesday nights. On Wednesday night, several Tangedco workers were in the field to immediately rush to the spot to fix trippings at transformers and blowing of fuses at pillar boxes.
"Most of us had sleepless nights for the last few days," said an official. A senior official said only two pillar box-related issues were reported on Wednesday night, while the numbers were 12 on Tuesday night and 30 on Monday.
However, suburbs suffered due to outages on Wednesday night too. "A transformer failure was reported in Pattabiram around 1am, but Tangedco officials replaced the transformer within five hours and power supply resumed by 6am. Kudos to the field workers," said T Sadagopan, an activist from Pattabiram.
In Modern City in Pattabiram, there was no electricity from 2am to 8pm, complained residents. In Manapakkam, power supply was affected from 10.45pm to 12.30am.
Electricity minister V Senthil Balaji on Thursday tweeted that Chennai's electricity demand rose to 4,044 MW on Wednesday beating the previous all-time high demand of Rs 4,016 MW reported on Tuesday. "Chennai alone consumed 90.3 million units of electricity on Wednesday. During AIADMK's regime, the maximum electricity consumption of Chennai was just 66.4 million units," he tweeted.