The round-the-clock free power supply to agriculture sector was interrupted in the areas under Northern Power Distribution Company of Telangana Ltd (TSNPDCL) on Thursday following some “communication gap between the field level authorities, particularly those of Transmission Corporation of Telangana Ltd (TS-Transco) manning the sub-stations, and State Load Dispatch Centre (SLDC).
As a result, agricultural pump-sets did not work for most part of the day on Thursday in 17 districts as only single-phase supply was given instead of three-phase supply required by most of the connections. The authorities of Northern Discom informed farmers, who called their field offices, that three-phase supply would be given only after evening hours.
Sources explained that there was some mismatch in applying for slot-wise energy requirement during the day-time on Thursday with the Indian Energy Exchange and even after some frantic last-minute efforts the required allotment could not be secured. As a result, demand-supply gap was created leading to only single-phase supply to farm connections in the Northern Discom areas.
