Centre warns states against selling surplus power; denies outage in Delhi
The Centre warned that if any state was found selling surplus power or not scheduling the unallocated power, their unallocated power may be temporarily reduced or withdrawn and reallocated to other states.
FollowThe power ministry has put out a statement clarifying that there has been no outage in the national capital on account of power shortage.
In a statement, the power ministry said that as per the information it received from Delhi's distribution companies, there had been no outage on account of power shortage, as the required amount of power was provided.
The minister has issued directions to the National Thermal Power Corporation and Damodar Valley Corporation to supply as much power as available to Delhi distribution companies under respective PPAs.
The government data contests the Delhi government's claim of a power shortage. The data suggests that not once did the Centre not meet the power requirements of Delhi in the last two weeks.
The government data was released a day after Delhi Power Minister Satyendar Jain claimed that the plants providing power to Delhi were witnessing a coal shortage and had a stock that would last only 2-3 days. The data can be accessed here.Â
NTPC has also been directed to offer declared capacity to Delhi's distribution companies as per their allocations from gas-based power plants.
Meanwhile, the Centre has also issued guidelines regarding the use of unallocated power of central generating stations by the states to meet the increased demand from coal-based power generation.
The Centre has requested the states to use the unallocated power for supplying electricity to their consumers.Â
It has also appealed to the states that in case they have surplus power, they should intimate the power ministry so that the excess resource could be reallocated to another state that needs it.Â
The Centre warned that if any state was found selling surplus power or not scheduling the unallocated power, their unallocated power may be temporarily reduced or withdrawn and reallocated to other states.
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