Darker nights ahead? Kashmir’s hydel power generation falls by 76%

By
Ziraat Times
-

By: Riyaz Bhat

Srinagar, Jan 31: Owing to the low water level, the Power Development Department (PDD) is currently able to produce only 24 Megawatts (MWs) of electricity against the total capacity of around 250 MWs from the power plants in Kashmir region.

A top official from Jammu and Kashmir State Power Development Corporation (JKSPDC) said that “From Kashmir power plants, we have a power generation capacity of around 250 MW out of which currently, we are producing only around 60 MW power.”

“In view of low water availability, we are able to produce only 40 MW of power from lower Jhelum in the night hours and 5 MW during the other hours and 15 MW at Kangan,” the official said.

The official further said that from the power plants in Kangan, water was available for only one machine which has a power producing capacity of 150 MW. As of now we are able to produce only around 15 MW of power from Kangan.”

“As of now we are reserving the water to generate power during the peak hours. This is the routine power generation but in upcoming month, we are expecting increase in power generation,” he said.

The official further said, “We are in the middle of lean season and this year it started earlier in comparison to previous years.”

There is a total power generation capacity of around 1200 MW from the power projects of Jammu and Kashmir and 2250 MW from NHPC.

Pertinently, Jammu and Kashmir was facing power generation shortage of nearly 80 % in November and December months.

From across the regions, PDD was generating only 200-260 MW of power from all power projects in Jammu and Kashmir. —(KNO)

RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR

131 COMMENTS

  1. Who is responsible melting glaciers vanishing one before our very eyes and concerned department turned blind eye Environment Awareness Forum years back warned but no one took.note delinquency carries promotions instead taking to task dereliction. APR is shown these culprits excellence in performance.

  2. I have recently started a site, the information you provide on this website has helped me tremendously. Thanks for all of your time & work. “Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.” by Marcus Tullius Cicero.

  3. hello there and thank you for your information – I’ve definitely picked up anything new from right here. I did then again experience some technical points the usage of this website, as I experienced to reload the site many occasions prior to I may get it to load properly. I have been puzzling over if your web hosting is OK? Not that I am complaining, however slow loading instances instances will very frequently affect your placement in google and could injury your high-quality rating if advertising and ***********|advertising|advertising|advertising and *********** with Adwords. Well I’m including this RSS to my email and can glance out for a lot more of your respective exciting content. Make sure you update this again soon..

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here