Delhi claims power share as city clocks peak June demand

DELHI CLOCKED A PEAK POWER DEMAND OF 7,311MW AT 3.30PM ON MONDAY, THE HIGHEST FOR THE SEASON, AND A RECORD FOR JUNE

NEW DELHI: The Delhi government has written to the Centre demanding the complete allocation of its share of 728MW of electricity from the Dadri-ii thermal power station even as the Capital clocked a peak power demand of 7,311 MW at 3.30 pm on Monday, the highest not only for the season, but also the highest ever in June.

Delhi has met an all-time high power demand of 7,409 MW recorded on July 2, 2019.

Delhi earlier expressed the desire to surrender the 728MW from Dadri-ii in 2015, and hence it was reallocated to Haryana. However, the Delhi high court later stayed the Centre’s decision.

On June 9, the Delhi power department wrote to the secretary of the Union power ministry urging the Centre to reconsider its decision of reallocating power from NTPC’S Dadri-il power plant from Delhi to Haryana in view of the expected power demand in Delhi this summer, which is likely to hit the 8,200MW mark.

“Without Dadri-ll (728 MW) and considering the prevalent power market conditions, the deficit in demand and supply will increase significantly and will result in risk of outages in the national capital of Delhi. Therefore, it is imperative that Delhi must continue to receive its power share of 728MW from Dadri-ll power plant,” said the letter written by Delhi government’s special secretary (power), Azimul Haque to the secretary, ministry of power, Alok Kumar.

“Delhi continues to require this power in view of manifold increase in the power demand in the National Capital Territory of Delhi in order to maintain uninterrupted power supply in Delhi. The fact that this power was surrendered by Delhi government in the year 2015 cannot be taken as a valid plea for reallocation of this power since much water has flown after 2015, and the whole scenario of power requirement has changed in 2022,” it said.

The letter comes after the Delhi high court on June 1 asked the Centre to intervene in a dispute between Delhi and Haryana over their claim to the allocation of 728 MW of electricity generated by the Dadri-ii thermal power plant.