Power station shutdowns threaten already weak power situation
Posted on: 16/Apr/2013 4:05:23 PM
There is a power deficit of more than 3000 MW in Tamil Nadu as two units of the Tuticorin Thermal Power Station went offline and Unit 2 of the Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) shut down after a glitch in the generator unit.
Said MAPS director T.J. Koteeswaran, �The reactor of unit 2 in Kalpakkam is in cold shutdown. The first unit is producing 170 MW as usual� It is likely to take at least a month for the unit to be operational again.�
�Wind generation has picked up. Windmills generated 1,000MW on Monday. Wind power generation has been going up from 100MW to 1,000MW. We hope this will narrow the demandsupply gap� There had been no increase in power cuts�, said a TNEB official.
