The start of summer in Tamil Nadu puts the maintenance staff and senior officials of the electricity department in overdrive to maintain uninterrupted power supply to homes. It is essential that Tangedco start preparing for the summer, which officially starts around April and goes on till the first week of June, when power demand shoots up.
A senior official of Tangedco says that except during the COVID-19 lockdown enforced in 2020 and 2021, the power demand has been increasing every summer. This year, the peak power demand record has been broken twice, with an all-time high of 19,387 MW and 423.785 million units consumed on April 20. On April 18, Tangedco was able to meet the peak demand of 18,882 MW and consumption of 413 million units by the more than 3.30 crore consumers, the official adds.
“We have been facing frequent disruptions in power supply for the last 10 days. The supply is cut for half-an-hour to one hour. We were without power between 8 p.m. Wednesday and 3 a.m. Thursday ”K. Rajua farmer at Musiri
