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Chandigarh, October 22
The arrival of coal rakes has lead to the restoration of thermal units.
The coal rakes arrived after 27 days which has restored the thermal units of Talwandi Sabo, Rajpura thermal, and Goindwal Sahib thermal plants.
One unit of Talwandi Sabo thermal plant, the second unit of Rajpura thermal, and one unit of Goindwal Sahib thermal have started generation on Friday giving it the much-needed relief to Punjab power supply.
One unit each at Lehra Mohabatt and Ropar which were generating power, has now been put on forced outage following the revival of thermal units at private thermal plants.
On Friday, the maximum demand observed is 6360 MW at 10 am.
On Thursday, the power demand in Punjab was 6400 MW with an evening peak of 5900 MW.
The power supply in the state was 1316 Lakh units with thermal plants only supplying 161 lakh units.
State hydro plants supplied 125 lakh units.
Rajpura thermal supplied 92 lakh units while state thermal units at Ropar and Lehra Mohabatt supplied 69 lakh units.
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