Chennai to face one more hour of power cut
Posted on: 16/Feb/2012 11:57:54 PM - No. of views : (2562)
The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board, may find it difficult to manage electricity supply during peak summer this year. The TNEB is seriously considering increasing the duration of power cuts to two hours in the Chennai city.
Officials recently submitted a proposal to chief minister J Jayalalithaa suggesting the load-shedding to increase in the city, which has so far been spared from long hours of power cuts. Power managers feel that this is perhaps the only solution to ease the problem.
As the power demand in Chennai stands at 2,000MW, this is bound to increase once the summer heat increases.
The period of peak demand in the coming months is going to be difficult to manage, even though the TNEB has booked a separate corridor for getting power from other states and is preparing for power purchase from private players, the official admitted.
