Punjabstate power corporation limited has successfully catered the historical record of power supply of 3029 lakh units and alsotouched maximum demand of 13,161 MW onJune 25,2021.This was disclosed by PSPCL CMD A Venu Prasad in prèss notehere today.
Whilesharing details Shri A.Venu Prasad saidthat the previous record of powersupplywas 3018 lakh units on 2nd July,2020. He said that PSPCL has purchased 216 lakh Units with 929 MW of power frompower exchange to meet this demand. He said that PSPCL has made elaboratearrangements upto 13,700 MW of power for thestate.He said that PSPCL has provided 8hours uninterrupted supply in all 3 times groups of agriculture consumers ofall distribution zones. He also added that additional power supply wasprovided to AP consumers yesterday ascompensation for the power effected due to outages. He said that even more than 8 hours supply was provided to Amritsar, Sangrur, Bathinda and Faridkotdistricts.
He saidthat power consumers can also directlycontact zonal control rooms in order to update the status of power supplyposition and to redress complaints of the consumers special control rooms havebeensetup at the zonal levels round theclock.
The phonenumbers are 96461-82959, 0183-2212425, for Border zone, (Amritsar, Taran-Taran,Gurdaspur, Pathankot) 96461-16679, 0181-2220924 for North Zone, (Jalandhar,Nawanshahr, Kapurthala, Hoshiarpur) 96461-46400, 96461-48833 for the Southzone, (Patiala, Sangrur, Barnala, Ropar, Mohali) 96461-18039, 96461-85267 forWest zone, (Bathinda, Faridkot, Muktsar, Ferozepur, Moga, Fazilka) 96461-22070,96461-81129 for Central zone, ( Ludhiana, Khanna, Fatehgarh Sahib),96461-06835, 96461-06836 for centralized complaint centre at PSPCL HeadquartersPatiala.
In amessage, PSPCLCMD A Venu Prasadhas appealed to PSPCL’s agitatingemployees to call off their protest inthe larger interest of the farmers and power consumers of Punjab in the COVID pandemic. He said that PSPCLwill continue to stay committed to providing reliable and quality power supplyalong with a superior customer services in Punjab.