As the capital, Chennai has always remained the hotspot for power managers who struggle to maintain uninterrupted supply. The city’s demand is almost one-fifth of the State’s total demand because of the huge residential, commercial and industrial population.
Whenever the demand reached the highest, unscheduled shutdowns were resorted to in the previous years.
But this year when the city touched the highest demand of 3,778 MW on April 20, against the peak demand of 3,723 MW reached in June last year, the power managers were unfazed by the trend. The reaching of the highest demand in the city reflected in the highest consumption of 84.23 million units on April 21.
