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'Northeast suffering from power crisis'
Morung Express | IANS | Agartala, March 19 ():
ndia’s northeast region has been hit by a severe power crisis for two weeks with prolonged dry spells leading to falling water levels in rivers and reservoirs of all the major hydel power projects, a Tripura minister said here Tuesday.
The demand and power supply gap ranges between 60-70 percent in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Sikkim,” the official said. “The electricity demand has risen by 25-30 percent due to soaring temperatures coupled with high humidity,” the TSECL official said.
The peak hour’s demand of power in the northeast region is around 2,300 MW. According to Dey, the major hydro-electric projects in the northeastern region include Nagaland’s Doyang (generation capacity 75 MW), Assam’s Kopili one and Kopili two (200 MW and 25 MW) and Khandong (50 MW), Manipur’s Loktak (105 MW) and Arunachal’s Ranganadi (405 MW).
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