The ministry further said the prime minister's appeal is to simply switch off the lights, and there is no call to switch off either street lights or appliances like computers, TVs, fans, refrigerators and ACs in homes.
Amid anti-Telangana agitations impacting power supplies in Andhra Pradesh, the Union Power Ministry has set up a special team to monitor the functioning of electricity grid the state.
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has said the first 660-Mw unit of Reliance Power's 3,960-Mw Sasan ultra mega power project (UMPP) could not achieve its "full load" in March 2013 and rejected the company's plea to appoint an independent technical committee to look into the readiness of that unit.
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