New Guidelines On Unallocated Power Issued To Prevent Misuse By States

Amid the ongoing coal crisis in the country, the central government on Monday issued guidelines to ensure that states do not misuse electricity allocated to them from coal-based power stations of Central PSUs.

“If any state is found selling power in power exchange or not scheduling this unallocated power, their unallocated power may be temporarily reduced or withdrawn and reallocated to other states which are in need of such power,” an official statement by the Power Ministry read.

The statement further noted that under these new guidelines, the states have been requested to use the unallocated power for supplying electricity to the consumers of the state and in case of surplus power, the states are requested to intimate so that this power can be reallocated to other needy state.

The Ministry also sent out directives to the NTPC and Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) to ensure that distribution companies of Delhi get as much as power as requisitioned by them as per their demand. This came after Delhi’s Power Minister Satyendra Jain statement on Monday that the state’s power plants are left with just 2-3 days of stock.

The maximum demand of Delhi was 4536 Mw and 96.2 Million units on October 10. “As per the information received from Delhi DISCOMs, there was no outage on account of power shortage, as the required amount of power was supplied to them,” the power ministry said.