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Even arsenic residents crossed the metropolis proceed to kick of predominant powerfulness outages, peculiarly during the night, the metropolis has acceptable a caller grounds for energy demand.
“Chennai crosses a historical powerfulness request of implicit 5,014 MW [megawatt] connected June 10, reflecting the increasing vigor needs of 1 of India’s largest metropolitan regions,” J. Radhakrishnan, Chairman and Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Power Distribution Corporation Limited (TNPDCL) posted a connection connected his Instagram page. Previously, the maximum request reached 4,966 MW connected June 8 and 4,852 MW connected May 22.
So far, Tamil Nadu met highest request of 21,307 MW connected April 29. On the day, the remainder of the confederate portion experienced a important highest powerfulness demand. As of now, the highest request - 66,694 MW - for the full portion was recorded connected April 2, 2025.
According to Mr. Radhakrishnan, the Chennai portion serves astir 38.80 lakh consumers done 253 substations, 40,798 organisation transformers, 16,582 km of precocious hostility (HT) lines, and astir 55,000 km of debased hostility (LT) lines crossed the organisation circles of Chennai North, Chennai Central, Chennai West, Chennai South-I, and Chennai South-II.
This municipality web forms a portion of Tamil Nadu’s extended powerfulness infrastructure comprising 1,910 substations, 39,763 circuit km of EHV transmission lines, 2,11,948 km of HT lines, 6,66,429 km of LT lines, 4,47,603 organisation transformers, and 351.73 lakh consumers State-wide.
To a query connected the powerfulness chopped issues crossed the city, Mr. Radhakrishnan said: “There is nary shortage of powerfulness successful Tamil Nadu but that immoderate of the extremity points successful Chennai metropolis are experiencing definite overload conditions owed to the utmost vigor successful the KTCC [Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur, Chengalpattu, and Chennai] region. Steps person been taken to mitigate overloading issues, and exigency teams person been formed with capable manpower to code the organisation extremity breakdowns deftly and immediately.”
“There are a fewer pugnacious spots. This is owed to issues similar aging infrastructure; request has outgrown successful galore locations. Some locations are precise congested...We are addressing these issues. We are besides inaugurating a substation successful M.K.B. Nagar soon,” Mr. Radhakrishnan added.
Earlier this week, determination was a monolithic disruption successful powerfulness proviso astatine Arumbakkam. This was owed to a stormwater drainage enactment successful the area, the TNPDCL main added.
