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TNEB will buy power from North
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Chennai, Feb. 27 The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board will buy power from northern States to manage the anticipated power shortage during summer, according to the Electricity Minister, Mr Arcot N. Veeraswamy. The State Government also plans to discuss with industries on ways to manage demand by staggering the weekly holidays.
At a press conference here on Wednesday, he said that between March and May, TNEB would buy power from West Bengal, Orissa and Assam. The State grid will receive over 250 MW in the first week of March and this would increase to over 400 MW in April. The peak summer demand in the State is expected to go up by about 500 MW from the present demand of about 8,900 MW. In May, the power availability would improve when the wind farms start generating power — Tamil Nadu has over 2,100 MW of installed capacity in wind farms.
The generation capacity now available with TNEB is about 8,600 MW and the shortage of about 300 MW is being managed through one hour of load shedding in the rural areas, the Minister said.
Some more relief would come from the 100 MW gas-based power project that is to be commissioned in Ramanathapuram District in a few days, he said.
In two days’ time, he will discuss with industry representatives the possibility of staggering the weekly holidays across the State. This would help to relieve peak demand by about 350 MW a day on an average compared to the drop in the demand just on Sunday when most units declare a holiday.
The State would be divided into six zones and the units in each zone would have the weekly holiday on different days.
With the increase in coal prices industrial units are shutting down coal-based power.
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