AP gears up for rising power demand

Vijayawada: With steep increase in consumption levels, the energy demand in Andhra Pradesh is projected to cross 250 million units a day in the near future.

After taking over as the Managing Director of AP Power Generation Corporation here on Friday, K V N Chakradhar Babu told the officials to make a contingency plan and put all-out efforts from APGENCO to accelerate the thermal generation to meet the increasing energy demand in the summer.

During a review on developments of APGENCO projects, he said that he will focus on modernisation of thermal power plants and priority will also be given to optimisation of power generation to meet the increasing energy demand.

APGENCO will take all necessary steps to prevent any problem in power generation including supply of coal from coalfields. He said that rising energy demand is a very good sign which indicates increase in economic activity of the State, he said.