According to NTPC Simhadri sources, the generation loss due
to shortage of fuel supply has been 325 million units as on Monday. The
state government depends heavily on NTPC Simhadri, which has four units, each
with the capacity to generate 500 MW. Four units were commissioned in two
stages. State gets total 1,000 MW generated from stage-I and 452 MW from
stage-II.
Of 1,000 MW produced from Stage-II, other States as per Gadgil formula Tamil Nadu gets 233 MW, Karnataka 208 MW, Kerala 95 MW and
Puducherry 12 MW. The unallocated power
will be 150 MW, which will also be shared by the southern states.
During the current financial year (2013-14), Simhadri
station, which is maintaining 100 per cent availability, could utilise only
87.69 per cent capacity due to fuel shortage.
The average domestic coal receipt as on Monday was 23,661
mt/day against a requirement of 28,000 mt/day. Simhadri station generated
1341 million units in April 2013, which is 92.83 per cent, by modulating the
generation according to the receipt of domestic coal on a day-to-day basis.
NTPC gets coal from the Mahanadi coalfields, Singareni,
Odisha and Indonesia .
NTPC Simhadri last year signed an agreement for purchasing 4.5 lakh tonnes of
low caloric coal from Indonesia
for three months while the State government too agreed last year to supply 7,000
tonnes per day besides the early availability of 3,500 tonnes from Singareni
Collieries Company Limited (SCCL).
The average day stock in April was 16,750 mt of coal. This
situation further worsened during May as the average receipt of domestic coal dipped
to 21,241 mt/day, restricting the station’s generation.
The average receipt of domestic coal in the last week of
April was 20,375 mt/day, which is only 5.8 rakes per day and accounts for
the monthly utilisation factor in May 2013 being 82.26 per cent only.
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