{"id":23707,"date":"2026-06-28T01:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=23707"},"modified":"2026-06-28T01:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:57:08","slug":"jk-pulled-up-for-grid-strain-amid-silt-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/jk-pulled-up-for-grid-strain-amid-silt-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"J&#038;K pulled up for grid strain amid silt woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Jun 27: With hydro generation impacted by silt, the Northern Regional Power Committee (NRPC) has pulled up Jammu &amp; Kashmir for its tendency to over-draw from the grid when its own generation dips.<\/p>\n<p>This caution comes as the committee noted that despite a strict deviation mechanism, these states continue to face challenges in managing low-voltage profiles.<\/p>\n<p>According to the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), NRPC has said that it has been experienced that states those have major share in hydro like Jammu &amp; Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh over draw from the grid during such conditions.<\/p>\n<p>As deviation mechanism is also strict, the committee reminded each state to plan in advance for such eventualities.<\/p>\n<p>NRPC urged all hydro generators to regularly update the data on silt monitoring portals so that necessary load generation balancing can be carried out by load despatch centres.<\/p>\n<p>About the maximising availability of ERS in summer 2026, NRPC said that several important transmission lines in the Northern Region remain under prolonged outage due to tower collapse in Apr-Jun months during windstorm events reported during the summer season. \u201cThe extended non-availability of these transmission lines impacts grid reliability, load transfer capability, and in some cases RE evacuation,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurther, more than 30 number of transmission lines are under outage due to tower collapse in northern region,\u201d NRPC said. (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Jun 27: With hydro generation impacted by silt, the Northern Regional Power Committee (NRPC) has pulled up Jammu &amp; Kashmir for its tendency to over-draw from the grid when its own generation dips. This caution comes as the committee noted that despite a strict deviation mechanism, these states continue to face challenges in managing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23709,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23707\/revisions\/23709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}