Bengaluru: Karnataka stared at a more frequent and unschedulable power outage when generations had been hit by a lack of acute coal, reports BV Shivashankar.
The state, which bragged with the power of a surplus with an installed capacity of 30,523mW until a few months ago, faced a frequent blackouts since mid-September.
In Bengaluru, where the state ensures unbroken power supply, there are blackouts for hours in several regions.
Officials warn loadshedding which is often in the near future.
The main cause of the crisis is a lack of coal supply to thermal power plants.
Country plants need 11 rules of coal 5.45 Thursday, the total generation is only 4,633mW when the request is 7.493 MW, and this causes blackouts in several areas of Bengaluru and the rest of the carnataka too.
Karnataka has three main dative factories – Thichur thermal power plants, Bellary thermal power plants and Yermarus thermal power plants – with cumulative mounted capacity of 5.020MW.
They need at least 11 coal salaries (1 rake is 4,000 tons) every day.
Supply has diminished on 6 rakes and officials say stock available with plants is not enough to meet demand a day.
“Active efforts to get additional coal from Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd and Talcher Coal Fields,” said V Ponnuraj, Managing Director, Karnataka Power Corporation Limited.
RTPS, with an installed capacity of 1,720mW, only operates four of the eight plants and produces 640mW on Thursday.
Only one in three units at BTPS operates and produces 432MW against a capacity of 1,700MW.
YTPS produces 635MW against an installed capacity of 1,600MW with only one of the two operating units.
The hydroelectric power plant with a commutative capacity produces 4.701MW failed to produce because they only produce 2,200mW and solar units produce 726MW as against a capacity of 7,500mW.
The supply of the Central Grid also dropped to 2,500 MW of 4.415MW.
“We have asked the center more coal and the situation will soon improve,” Minister of Energy V Sunil Kumar.
While this muffled the festive enthusiasm of the People’s Dasara celebration, the industry was hit hard only when they hoped for recovery from a covid-induced slowdown.
“Unless the government takes a quick step to increase the power supply, we will lose a quick recovery opportunity,” Sampathraman said, Chairman, the All-India producer organization.
Hit the supply of coal, Karnataka stared at the power crisis
