The Uttar Pradesh government has said the state
averted another failure of the Northern Grid on Monday, as electricity supplies were timely cut to certain districts.
The incident comes within three weeks after the Northern Grid
tripped for two straight days on July 30 and July 31. One of the largest grids,
it covers nine regions - Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, J&K and Chandigarh.
"We timely succeeded in averting grid failure by cutting power supply to some districts," Principal Secretary Energy AK Gupta told reporters.
The Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) averted the failure this morning, at around 10 am, when the grid frequency dropped to around 48.8, Gupta said.
The frequency - generally referred to as the intensity at which electricity is supplied - is to be normally in the range of 49.7 to 50.2.
According to Gupta, the incident took place even as Uttar Pradesh was under-drawing 588 MW electricity.
He said the situation developed probably due to
shut down of three power plants in Himachal Pradesh that resulted in supply shortage of around 3,000 MW.
However, further details were not provided.
Gupta also said timely action by the UPPCL was appreciated by officials of Power Grid Corp.
India has five electricity grids - Northern, Eastern, North Eastern, Southern and Western. All of them are inter-connected, except the Southern grid.
All the grids are being run by the state-owned Power Grid Corporation, which operates more than 95,000 circuit km of transmission lines.
with PTI inputs
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