The Ministry of Power issued an advisory to states, central electricity authority (CEA), all RPCs, CPSUs, national load despatch Centre (NLDC), regional load despatch centre (RLDCs) to ensure maintaining and reliability of the electricity grid during the strike called by the National Convention of Workers from March 28 to March 30.
The Ministry advised that all the power utilities shall take necessary measures to ensure round the clock normal functioning of the electricity grid and availability of all plants, transmission lines and substations.
Notwithstanding above, the followings measures shall also be taken for secure and reliable grid operations: Shutdown activities planned during 28th March 2022 to 29th March, 2022 may be rescheduled to suitable future dates to the extent possible. All concerned may be advised to ensure close supervision of their regional network/control area and shall report to the concerned SLDC/ RLDC and NLDC in the event of any contingency.
The Ministry also said additional manpower may be deployed at all critical sub-stations, power station on 24X7 to handle any emergency conditions. The healthiness of data and voice communication between the identified sub-stations/ power stations and their corresponding SLDC/RLDCs may be ensured. Power supply to essential services such as hospitals, defence, railways etc. should be ensured.
All regional/state control room executives should be vigil and on high alert. All defence mechanisms such as df/dt, Under Frequency Relay based Load shedding (UFLS), SPS etc. shall be in service. Also, a 24×7 Control Room may be made functional for information dissemination and for handling any kind of contingency.
