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Karnataka
By Our Staff Correspondent
Disclosing this to presspersons at Shaktinagar, near here, today, K.Jothiramalingam, Managing Director, KPCL, said though the State was facing a power crisis for the past two years, the KPCL hoped to handle the situation effectively during summer. The synchronisation of the seventh unit of the Raichur Thermal Power Station (RTPS) would augment power supply to some extent. There would be an improvement in power supply from February when the unit would be run on a commercial basis. He said there had been a little improvement in the storage at hydel stations in the post-monsoon period. But the KPCL was able to supply about 20 mu. of power from hydel sources every day to the State grid. The Metrological Department had predicted a good monsoon next year and there might not be any power shortage in the State, he said. Mr. Jothiramalingam said the thermal plant, with a total installed capacity of 1,470 MW (7 x 210 MW), would now be able to generate about 35 mu. of power day under 100 per cent plant load factor (PLF). However, there would not be any problem in generating a maximum power of at least 30 mu. a day from the thermal plant at 90 per cent PLF. The total power availability, from the hydel and thermal stations, would be about 50 mu. a day. Another 43 mu. of power was available from the Central grid taking the total power availability in the State to 93 mu. a day, he said. In answer to a question, he said that presently the grid consumption in the State was about 83.50 mu. a day, though the demand was a little higher than this. On the progress of work on the Bellary Thermal Power Station (BTPS), Mr. Jothiramalingam said it was progressing well. The KPCL had floated tenders for laying a water pipeline from the identified source to the site and finalised the required coal linkage for the plant. The boiler and turbine generator (BTG) package for the plant would be finalised with the Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL) by end of this month. The 500 MW plant was expected to be synchronised in 36 months from the zero date, he added. He said that work on the eighth unit of the RTPS was expected to be launched next month and the Congress President, Sonia Gandhi, was expected to participate in the function. She would attend the inauguration of the seventh unit of the RTPS, he added. Mr. Jothiramalingam said the KPCL was determined to launch work on the Bidadi Combined Cycle Project near Bangalore, for which land had been acquired and source of water supply finalised. It had already floated the expression of intent for gas supply for the plant for which about eight bidders participated, but it was yet to be finalised. Meanwhile, the Reliance Group forwarded an offer to supply natural gas for the plant which proved to be a cheaper than LNG. It promised to bring the natural gas to the plant by 2004 or 2005. But the KPCL was yet to discuss the price of the gas with the group. After it was finalised, work on the project would be speeded up and complete in 24 moths, he added. S.M.Jafrulla, Technical Director, KPCL, said that the work on the Alamatti hydro power plant was going on briskly, and the first unit was expected to be commissioned in December 2003 instead of March 2004 as originally scheduled.
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