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Hyderabad, April 28 The power holiday for high tension industrial consumers in Andhra Pradesh will be brought down to about one day a week from three days and the domestic sector will not have any load shedding henceforth.

The power situation has partly eased with gas-based independent power producers (IPPs) commencing generation from the gas supplied by GAIL through East-West pipeline of Reliance Industries Ltd.

The unrestricted energy demand has been reduced from 230 million units a day to 205 mu, as against average demand of about 221 mu from the first week of April 2009. Therefore, the State continues to meet the gap of about 15 mu by power purchase from central generating stations.

According to a statement from the Chief Minister’s Office on Tuesday, while GAIL has stepped up gas supplies, all the power projects in the State will get gas from the Krishna-Godavari basin next month and this will pave way for additional capacity.

In addition to generating power from various gas-based projects in the State, initially from re-gassified liquefied natural gas (RLNG) supplied by GAIL, and thereafter from LNG from the KG basin, the Generation Corporation of Andhra Pradesh (AP Genco) will add another 300-MW unit of Vijayawada Thermal Power Station in the first week of May.

In the meantime, the Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, has directed that the farm sector continue to get assured supply of seven hours till all their requirements are met.

According to estimates, the rabi season will come to end by mid-May.

The base availability of power is estimated at 165 mu and this has increased to about 184 mu, with IPPs generating an additional 750 MW using RLNG.

According to supply data, AP Transco is supplying 191 mu with a peak demand of 8,430 mw and purchase of 18 mu. The load relief for the industrial consumers is about 15 mu.

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