Normal life was affected in Mysore region due to erratic power supply and unscheduled loadshedding in urban and rural pockets of five districts.
The rural areas are the worst-affected as they have no power to operate pumps for agricultural activities.
Chamundeshwari Electric Supply Company (CESCOM) that caters to Mysore, Mandya, Chamrajnagar, Kodagu and Hassan districts needs 1,100 MW a day to meet its demand.
But, it was allotted only 400 MW a day in the past three days. CESCOM officials resorted to indiscriminate load-shedding.
The power cut has also affected water supply in Mysore City Corporation areas as water is pumped from Hongahalli, Melapura and Belagola pump houses.
The demand for power may increase during the Dasara celebrations. Sources said the fall in rains had hit the hydro power generations.
Linkanamakki dam is filled to just 60 per cent of its capacity. A senior official said the state that was supposed to get 1,200 MW of power from wind energy sources was producing less than 200 MW due to low wind velocity.
The region has about 2 lakh irrigation pump-sets and 45,000 unauthorised IP sets that need threephase power. As several bore wells have dried up, power consumption of IP sets has increased of late, and farmers have sunk too many bore well to meet their daily needs.
The CESCOM officials have planned to install additional transformers and link them to sub-stations to boost power supply.
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