To meet the electricity demand during the ongoing paddy season and scorching heat, the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam and the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam today said they have made sufficient arrangements of power for July, said a state official today.
A spokesman for Haryana Power Utilities said that the average demand for electricity in state this month would be 1177.74 lakh units per day.
"As many as 927.90 lakh units of power would be available from long term arrangements. The State would require 249.84 lakh units of electricity daily through short term arrangements to bridge the gap between demand and supply," he said.
He said that the Power Utilities had made banking arrangements under which 200 MW would be available from Tamil Nadu Electricity Board, 68 MW from Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board and 100 MW from NVVN (West Bengal) round the clock.
"The Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board, Mittal MP TRADECO and NVVN, Assam would return 70 MW, 71 MW and 40 MW of power respectively to Haryana under the return banking arrangements," he said.
He also said that it has been decided to procure 250 MW from JSW, 100 MW from NVVN, West Bengal and 216 MW from Government of Himachal Pradesh through Power Trading Corporation. The State would get 246.45 lakh units of electricity daily from these arrangements, he further said.
The spokesperson said the existing schedule of minimum eight hours power supply to agricultural tubewells, 16 hours to industrial category consumers and 20 hours to urban domestic consumers would continue during the current month.
