Even as the mercury soars and an unprecedented heatwave sweeps across Delhi, several areas across the national capital are suffering power outages. Facing criticism for the power situation, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has maintained that outages are not due to a shortage of power but due to poor maintenance by discoms.
Severe outages took place in many areas on Sunday despite relatively less power demand as compared to weekdays when it had breached the 6,000 MW. The State Load Despatch Centre recorded peak power load of 5,583 MW at 12 AM, indicating that power demand did not cross that figure through the day.
Hitting out at discoms, the Delhi government said the companies would be penalised and made to compensate consumers for unscheduled power cuts.
"We have directed the DERC that if any area has unscheduled power cuts and it is not rectified in two hours then people of that area have to be compensated. This policy will be implemented soon so that their (discoms) accountability is fixed," Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said.
The discoms have been called for a meeting with the Chief Minister on Tuesday.
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