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Special Chief Secretary (Energy) K. Vijayanand directed the A.P. powerfulness utilities to beryllium afloat prepared to guarantee uninterrupted and reliable powerfulness proviso to each consumers successful the State successful presumption of the onset of summertime and the expected emergence successful powerfulness request to astir 280 Million Units (MU) per time successful May.
During a virtual reappraisal gathering with elder officials of the powerfulness utilities connected Monday, Mr. Vijayanand instructed the DISCOMs to intimately show request trends, maximise disposable procreation and marque beforehand arrangements for powerfulness procurement to guarantee 24x7 prime powerfulness supply.
He said the Andhra Pradesh (A.P.) powerfulness utilities had truthful acold met an mean grid request of 264.65 MU per time and recorded a maturation of 9.15% compared with the corresponding play past year. The State grid besides registered its highest ever depletion of 274.60 MU since bifurcation connected March 7, 2026.
Mr. Vijayanand observed that the State witnessed a abrupt summation successful energy request during the past 10 days of February, which necessitated further procurement from powerfulness exchanges to support uninterrupted supply.
He said the highest request during March and April 2026 was expected to scope 14,500 MW, portion the minimum request was projected to beryllium astir 9,000 MW. Minor deficits of astir 200 to 400 MW were anticipated during the aboriginal greeting hours.
He stressed the request for continuous monitoring of procreation availability from thermal and renewable sources and businesslike procurement of powerfulness from exchanges specified arsenic the Day Ahead Market and Real Time Market to guarantee uninterrupted proviso crossed the State.
A.P. Transco Director (Grid) A. K. V. Bhaskar, DISCOMs CMDs L. Siva Sankar, I. Prudhvi Tej and P. Pulla Reddy, among others, were present.
