PSPCL generated 47.48 percent of total power required
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in
Punjab is generating 47.48 percent of total power required from its own sources, be it thermal, hydel projects, at the time of filing this report at 10:42 pm. At this time the requirement is 6077 MW. Powercom is also purchasing power from other sources to cover the gap, besides getting share from other sources.
Punjab has installed capacity of generating around 7000 MW from all sources.
As per available data, today only one unit, out of four units is working at GGSSTP, Ropar. The GGSSTP Ropar has 4 units of 210 MW each and the working unit is generating 160 MW.
Likewise, GHTP Lehra Mohabbat has four units-two of 210 MW and two of 250 MW. Out of these four, two units are working and generating 396 MW.
PSPCL major Hydel power generator Ranjit Sagar Dam (RSD), having 600 MW capacity i.e four units of 150 MW each is not generating a single unit. Another hydel project Upper Bari Doab Canal (UBDC) having installed capacity of 91.35 MW is also not generating any power. Mukerian Hydel Project (MHP) of PSPCL having installed capacity of 225 MW, is also not generating any power. The other hydel working projects of PSPCL’s Anandpur Sahib Hydel Projects-1&2 are generating 46 MW against the installed capacity of 134 MW. PSPCL’s oldest Shanan Power project is generating72 MW against the installed capacity of 110 MW.
The total hydel projects have a capacity to generate 1160.35 MW where as they are generating only 118 MW.
Independent Power Plants(IPPs) of Punjab have a total generating capacity of 3920 MW. The largest private plant is Talwandi sabo power plant (TSPL). It has a generating capacity of 1980 MW. Second largest private power plant is L&T’s Nabha Power Limited at Rajpura. It has a generating capacity of 1400 MW. The third private plant is GVK’s Goindwal sahib thermal plant having a total installed capacity of 540 MW.
Today, TSPL’s three units are generating around 1054 MW , NPL’s two units are generating around 1109 MW and no electricity is generated at GVK’s plant.
Coal shortage is one of the major reasons that the thermal plants are not working up to their installed capacity.
April 14,2022
