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HYDERABAD
Increase successful the request for vigor from agriculture, home and commercialized categories of consumers owed to the rising temperatures coupled with fears of state and substance shortage person pushed some vigor usage and highest load of powerfulness to caller highs with the highest-ever vigor depletion (344.4 MU) and load (18,228 MW) recorded connected March 13.
According to the authorities of the powerfulness utilities, the vigor usage includes depletion for the reversible pumping procreation by the TG-Genco. Excluding it, the depletion was 341.08 cardinal units. The highest load connected the transmission strategy had crossed 18,000 megawatt people thrice already this period and it clocked beyond the past year’s highest of 17,162 MW connected 10 different days this period including connected Saturday (March 14).
With the emergence successful demand, the TG-Genco is besides making usage of its procreation facilities to the optimum level with the grounds ain procreation of 121.77 MU recorded connected March 14, 121.66 MU connected March 13 and 121.48 MU connected March 12. A elder technologist of the TG-Genco stated that it was imaginable chiefly owed to the availability of 3 units of 800 MW each astatine the 5×800 MW Yadadri Thermal Power Station (YTPS) successful Nalgonda district.
Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, who handles the portfolios of Energy and Finance too, termed the all-time grounds successful vigor depletion of highest load connected the transmission strategy arsenic ‘historic’ and said the State was prepared for gathering immoderate demand. He stated that the highest-ever highest load of 18,228 MW was clocked astatine 11.17 americium connected March 13 and said the utilities were acceptable to grip highest load up to 19,000 MW and vigor usage up to 350 MU.
The request for vigor is pulled chiefly by the farm, home and commercialized sectors with the full grade of cultivation of Rabi play crops crossing 79.34 lakh acres truthful far, 2nd highest ever with past Rabi signaling implicit 80.05 lakh acres.
Similarly the cultivation of paddy, the astir water-intensive harvest and which depends connected borewells for intermittent wettings adjacent nether the canal systems, reached 58.7 lakh acres against the highest-ever of 59.92 lakh acres recorded during the past Rabi (2024-25). Maize is raised successful implicit 11.7 lakh acres this Rabi season.
Increase successful depletion for EV charging for the past fewer days has besides pushed the demand.
