Lucknow, June 19 -- Uttar Pradesh faced pressure on power availability amid surging electricity demand caused by intense heat after a transmission disturbance in the Singrauli region disrupted generation and affected the state's share of supply last night.

According to a spokesperson for the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL), two high-voltage transmission lines in the Singrauli region tripped on the evening of June 18 due to an earth fault. The disruption impacted all three units of NTPC's Rihand thermal power station, affecting around 3,000 MW of generation, of which Uttar Pradesh's allocated share was estimated at nearly 950 MW.

The situation was aggravated by outages and technical disruptions at multiple generating stat...