Click to play videoNew Delhi: Scorching heat, delayed monsoons and frequent power cuts, many most of the families in Delhi are facing these problems this summer.
“We have to resort to generators and allocate a separate budget for diesel every month,” says a resident of Chittranjan Park, Naresh.
The demand for electricity has shot up by almost 40 per cent across the country.
In Delhi alone the industrial and business units are consuming 42 per cent of power. The domestic consumption has increased to 56 per cent while the rest is consumed by agricultural units.
Mercury levels are almost 45 degrees while water levels in hydel power plants are at a 10-year low. As power saving emerges the only solution, the Delhi government is planning to adopt some drastic measures.
“If it gets worse in a week or 10 days then we will switch off all the neon lights and close shops early. We have all those plans in place if and when required we will do that,” says Chief Minister Sheila Dixit.
The only way to tide over this crisis is to conserve power. And everyone needs to his or her own bit.
WAYS TO SAVE POWER
- Turning off the lights, fans and computers when they're not in use
- Switch to CFLs bulbs instead of ordinary ones. This way you can save upto 80 per cent of power
- Clean dusty tubelights, bulbs and the AC filter regularly, that'll save 50 per cent power
- Air conditioners cost over 10 Rs per hour to run. Shade the windows and walls on which AC has been put to reduce power consumption by 40 per cent
So if every consumer conserves 10-15 watts everyday, the entire city will be saving almost 30 mega watts of power daily.
There's little room for choice, when we're facing one of the biggest power crises of our time.
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