Under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, state-owned power utility, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) on August 22, 2022, successfully met its all-time highest ever power demand of 14,295 MW, thereby surpassing its previous demand achievement of 14,207 MW recorded on June 29, 2022. Overall increase in energy supplied is also up by 12.87 per cent from April till date as against 2021 – 33,242 MUs viz-a-viz 29,452 MUs.
Power Minister Harbhajan Singh ETO said that peak demand of PSPCL is observed during the end of June or start of July due to high temperatures and initial high irrigation demand of paddy plantation. But this year, due to prevalence of comparatively dry weather conditions, the peak demand in the state has continued till August end.
He further said that till August 22, PSPCL successfully met a rise of 6.57 per cent in power demand viz-a-viz last year i.e 6,316 MUs against 5,927 MUs during the same period.
PSPCL has also made additional arrangements of power through more banking from other states and allocation of 1300 MW additional power from the Central sector. During the month of June & July, PSPCL has arranged 2,836 MUs through banking from other states which is 130 per cent more in comparison to last year i.e 1,234 MUs. He said that this year, with the optimum utilisation of the available resources and close monitoring of the energy generated from the generating stations, Hydro Generation of PSPCL has been increased by 3 per cent from last i.e 1715 MUs viz-a-viz 1664 MUs.
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Ranjit Sagar Hydro Power Project has achieved its all-time maximum generation of 149.55 LUs in a single day on August 22, which surpasses its previous maximum generation of 149.02 LUs on August 28, 2019, since the date of its commissioning. He said that PSPCL is supplying regular 8-hour supply to agriculture tubewells without imposing any power cut on any other category of consumers.
