Electricity supply across the State continued to remain dismal due to unending shut down one unit of the Tenughat Thermal Power Station is facing in the want of coal. Just single unit producing 203 MW of thermal power station produced electricity and supplied to the State from its own kitty on Thursday.

Though the Jharkhand Bijli Vitaran Nigam Limited (JBVNL) maintained that areas of the State capital such as Kokar, Main Road, Lalpur, Upper Bazar, Harmu faced hours of shutdown due to maintenance work or construction of electricity infrastructure under R-APDRP scheme on the day.

“Large part of Ranchi is undergoing underground cabling and covered overhead wire works and power cut was due to that. Besides that some areas like Doranda, HEC and few others faced load shading due to short power supply,” said an executive engineer with the JBVNL.

Entire in-house power availability remained only 267 MW adding 203 MW from TTPS and 53 MW from Inland Power.

This apart, 495 MW was allocated from the central poll, 103 MW from Adhunik, 48 MW for SER, 59 MW from Indian Energy Exchange and 76 MW from MPSEB.

“In total we received 896 MW and met demand of 953 MW by overdrawing 57 MW. Still there was a shortage of power and thus different parts of the State had to face load shading of 228 MW.

We are hoping that situation would improve in days to come,” said Rahul Purwar, Managing Director of JBVNL.

The lone power generating unit under the Government sector in the State TTPS is in short supply of coal due to the bill pending for the fuel. “TTPS is in talks with CCL and ways are being found out to ensure smooth coal supply,” said a senior official of the Energy Department.

Situation in far flung areas of Palamu, Latehar, Lohardaga, Chatra, Garhwa and other places remained critical with around 10 to 12 hours of power cut.

“We are getting lower supply and managing by hours of load shading in urban areas. Situation is worse in rural areas,” said an official of Medininagar division.