The discoms have also been directed to come up with daily bulletins on the schedule of outages at 8 am every day.
“A holistic vision and plan for Delhi has been non-existent for a decade. Lack of decision making, lack of investment in infrastructure and lack of forward planning in last 12 years is responsible for the problem,” Goyal said.
NTPC will divert gas to Bawana power plant which has a capacity of 1,500 MW but is generating only 290 MW. The additional gas will help generate 400 MW of power.
“There is no shortage of power; only transmission and distribution is a problem,” he said.
Goyal also promised that the Bawana-Rohini power transmission line, which was damaged by the storm in the capital and adjoining states on May 30, will be restored by tonight.
“Hopefully, we will be able to meet the peak demand of today,” he added. All other transmission lines will be repaired in the next 15 days.
Delhi's current requirement of power is 5,800 MW against which availability is 5,300 MW, he said.
Delhi can absorb only 400 MW, he said, adding that if a better transmission network had been built over the past 10 years, fuel could have been provided for producing an additional 1,100 MW.
Three transmission towers will be restored by Power Grid Corporation of India, the central transmission utility, in the next seven days, which will benefit the east Delhi areas.
“BSES and Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd, the two discoms in Delhi, have been instructed to become more responsive to power complaints,” Goyal said, adding that all their offices will work 24x7 till the power crisis ends.
The discoms will provide a three-day schedule of planned outages and issue a daily bulletin of the electricity situation in the capital.
The national capital is battling a power crisis amid acute temperatures. The maximum is expected to climb to about 46 degrees Celsius today, according to the MeT department.
Yesterday, the maximum was 45.5 degrees Celsius, the highest level in the month of June in 10 years. In Delhi's Palam area, the day temperature settled at 47.6 degrees Celsius, a day after registering 47.8 degrees Celsius, the hottest in 62 years.
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