City gets a reprieve from loadshedding

Loadshedding has been temporarily lifted in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad and there are likelihood of no outages from Saturday.

Loadshedding has been temporarily lifted in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad and there are likelihood of no outages from Saturday. The city did not face any outage on Friday and an official statement issued here said that there will be no loadshedding from Saturday,unless there is acute shortage of power.

Nine divisions of Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad included in the A-1 category of cities would face no loadshedding. However,if there is an acute power shortage,the utility will have to resort to load shedding,the release said while announcing the new schedule.

According to officials of the MSEDCL,the decision to end loadshedding was taken in the case of the six revenue divisions that had implemented the zero loadshedding model and had been placed in A-1 category.

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On Friday,the power utility had not enforced loadshedding in the morning and evening hours in the city. However,the utility officials pointed out that at present,availability of power in the state is 12,000 MW. It is still falling short of requirements and hence loadshedding will be increased in urban areas of other groups of cities from three to seven hours and in rural areas from the earlier 8-11 hours to 11-13 hours.

For the past week now,Puneites have been facing unscheduled loadshedding due to shortage of power across the state. The Telangana agitation and Orissa floods had hurt coal transportation and supply to thermal power plants. Besides,technical faults at various power plants in some other states had also led to power dipping in the national grid as well.

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