No power on Tuesday

HESCOM in press release stated that due to maintenance work Belgaum city and also some adjoining rural areas will face a power cut from 9 am to 6pm on Tuesday 15 September 2009.

Hescom resumes Power play for 2 hours

After the acute power shortage in May and June when there was less water in the hydro power plants, now even after all the hydro power plants are full to capacity the state is facing a power shortage and hence a 2 hours power cuts in urban areas & 10 hours in rural areas is being implemented from today.

 

The new time table for the load shedding has been announced.

Belgaum city will face power cuts in two time slots of 9 am to 10 am and 7 pm to 8pm.

Industrial areas will face power cuts 7am to 8am and 6pm to 7pm. 

7 hour power cut in Belgaum

On Sunday, HESCOM prepared a time table for power supply and now there will be a 7 hour power cut in city areas and about 10 hours in rural areas, the time table has been implemented since yesterday itself. Belgaum needs 120 MW but only 40 MW has been allocated to Belgaum so the need for the power cut, HESCOM said.

Load shedding schedule- the city will face seven hours power cut in the daytime. Following is the timetable of power cuts (restricted to city) -- morning 10 to 1 pm and afternoon 2 to 6 pm, there will be no power supply.

To industrial areas -- morning 6 to 10 am, afternoon 1 pm to 2 pm and evening 6 to 10 pm there will be no power supply.

A sigh of relief would be the availability of power from 6 pm to 10pm.

HESCOM’s Power play

HESCOM’s Power play

In the past two days HESCOM is playing with power supply. The state is facing a power shortage and before the Assembly session there was a planned load shedding going on, but during the session this was stopped.

Now after the session there is no planned load shedding. There is power cut at any time and for any time period. Sometimes it’s half an hour and sometimes four hours. Yesterday it was a hide and seek as after every 15 minutes or so there was a power cut.

Today so far the situation seems to be good.

Total Black outs in Belgaum

Belgaum is facing acute power shortage and after a day’s black out yesterday today was even worse. I could not even update the blog as there was no power in my home as well as office. Power went off at 7am in the morning and has come back at 5.15pm and I am updating the blog now.
All have gone mad and the business is hit. All at home also work is stuck up due to power cuts. No pumps running so no water and added bonus.

Yesterday’s black out was due to Technical fault

On Monday morning, everybody woke up with no electricity and all said that it was part of a power cut.
However, Infact it was due to a failure of an insulator at the Hubli 200 KV unit and it took 6 hours to repair the same.

In the evening the Tata Power, plant had a problem so the power was off. By 8 pm, the power returned and Belgaum got about 80 MW as against 120MW demand.

It has been decided that the industries will face a 4-hour load shedding.
Still Belgaum needs 40 MW and due to this shortfall load shedding is inevitable.

Power drought hits Belgaum:6 to 12 hours power cut

Get ready for an almost black out. From today the 12 hours of load shedding will be done in the city. The CM, Yedurappa will make a statement in the assembly today on this and the timetable for the load shedding could be out.

I had thought of this post in the morning but as power was not there, I am posting this in the afternoon.

Belgaum been put under the 12 hours power cut zone but the HESCOM is trying to get it under the 6 hour cut zone. However, sources say that the 12-hour cut is inevitable.

The monsoon has disappeared and the MET dept. who had said for a very good to above average monsoon this time is not making any statements expect to saying that nothing will change in the next 4-5 days. Which literally means no rains?

The people of Belgaum have started calling in the Gods, asking for rain. Many social and religious groups have organized prayers and havans so that the rain god comes back.

May what it is, even if Singh really becomes the King tomorrow or the Left win the wrong battle in your town its going to be a bit a dark a bit earlier.

Candle making industries are working over night to make up for the orders they have. Kisika Fayda Kisika Nuksaan, Ye he reeth hai Zindagi ki.

Be prepared to be in the dark or pray to the Rain God to come earlier.
Load shedding in Belgaum

As the production of electricity has drastically reduced due to, the shortage of water in the dams and the demand has increased due to heat, HESCOM (Hubli Electricity Supply Company) has decided to cut 20% supply to the city.

Since the past few days, load shedding is on the city for about half an hour in the morning and half an hour in the evening but the timing is not fixed and there is no fixed schedule, which is causing problems to Belgaumites.

Belgaum gets the supply from the 220 KV Indal Station. This station requires about 120 Mega Watt but it is getting only 23 MW from Hubli and 60 MW from Tata Power which means a shortage of 37 MW. Load shedding is being done to cover this shortfall.

A detailed load shedding timetable is expected in a couple of days.

We never faced the problem this summer as there was plenty of rainfall from March to may. However, this monsoon we will have to face it.

However, we are better than other states like Maharashtra where there is 4 –5 hours of load shedding in town and about 12-14 hours in rural areas.