Brief details about the Northern Regional power system
i) Northern regional grid is an electrical system comprising of over 10,00,000 sq. km of area with nine States/Union Territories namely Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Jammu Kashmir and Union territory of Chandigarh, Generating Stations at Central and State Sector Independent Power producing stations, State DISCOMS, STU etc.
ii) The Northern region has an installed capacity of 33,785 MW as on 31.03.2006 with 16,295 MW in State Sector and 17,490 MW in Central Sector including BBMB.
iii) The States are inter-connected with each other through 400kV/220 kV network. Northern Region is connected to Western and Eastern regions through a few radial 220 kV/132 kV HVAC and HVDC Back to Back links to facilitate exchange of power from surplus to deficit region / State as well as wheeling of power.
Northern Region has catered a maximum peak demand of 25,362 MW on 19.08.2005 with an average energy consumption of 462.96 MU during the year 2005-06.