Tamilnadus Deficit Power Shortage to End Soon
Posted on: 03/Dec/2012 12:46:19 PM
Tamilnadu is largely scared duel in power sector as well as water resource the power sector and the shortage met by the state is to be end or to be reduced due to the new arrival of thermal power units or power situation in Tamil Nadu looked up on Sunday with the additional 600MW fifth unit of the Mettur Thermal Power Station (MTPS) generating 480MW during a trial run. This partly offset the current electricity deficit in the state of more than 4,000MW. Chief minister J. Jayalalithaa on Thursday directive issued by her to expedite work on three power projects. trial run follows of the project and to be ready as soon. Said by officials.
The Top Official of the Mettur Power Station told to our journals that we will feed coal for regular power generation. Already we are able to generate maximum power in MPTS during the test run. new thermal unit station has coal stock of more than two lakh tonnes, an engineer said. The new unit commissioned under Stage III works of MTPS has been built at a costof about 3,550crore. The environment ministry has recently cleared the North Chennai Thermal Power Extension Project (2x600MW). These projects are to help Tamil Nadu tide over the power crisis. Chief minister Jayalalithaa has also directed that work be speededup on the Vallur Thermal Power Project, a joint venture of TNEB and the NTPC to generate 3x500MW.
Whereas other Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project’s first reactor is ready to generate 1,000 mw electricity is an another source to weed out the scarcity of electricity for Tamilnadu.
