Despite the full-page promotions to check the progressive authorizing of 2,400-megawatt coal power plants in Thar, the state-supported sole power purchaser can’t despatch more than 75% of the total limit.
Just 1,800MW of the 2,400MW Thar power plants can be emptied at some random time inferable from transmission requirements. Postpones in the development of the subsequent transmission line among Thar and Matiari Converter Station have brought about the coal-based power plants sitting inactive regardless of positioning exceptionally on the legitimacy request of effective power makers.
Focal Power Buying Organization Assurance Ltd (CPPA-G), which is the public authority possessed single purchaser of power from free power makers, as of late composed a letter to Public Transmission and Despatch Organization Ltd (NTDC) requesting that CPPA-G be refreshed about the “progress and conditional dispatching date” of the transmission line.
“Obviously in the current plan, every one of the four Thar coal power projects can’t be cleared totally immediately, which raises a serious worry on the power departure and the limit of the transmission line,” said the letter seen before sun-up.
Interest for power will increment in the approaching summer season, however the “full modest power clearing from native coal is beyond the realm of possibilities” under the momentum conditions, it added.
Power age started in Thar with two coal-based plants of 330MW each by Engro Powergen in Block-2. Later on, Center point Power alongside different investors fabricated two more power plants of 330MW each in a similar Block-2.
In the mean time, Shanghai Electric assembled two power plants of 660MW each in Block-1 of Thar coalfields. Around 2,400MW of the introduced limit of 2,640MW is dispatchable. Be that as it may, just a single transmission line, which can convey up to 1,800MW, is presently accessible for the four Thar projects.
The deficiency of framework has brought about “strange voltage” and “recurrence variances” for Thar power plants on the sole devoted transmission line, the CCPA-G said.
A source in the power area let Day break know that the two plants in Block-1 are being despatched consistently in view of their low per-unit cost of coal.
Concerning Block-2, the source said just two of the four plants are despatched at some random time — one each from Engro and Center Power.
As per an energy area master, creating 600MW on imported coal rather than Thar coal is costing around $30 million consistently. Delivering that much power through imported gas ought to cost $35m in imports, he said.
Addressing First light, a senior authority of NTDC expressed work on the under-development transmission line ought to be finished in “two to over two months”. The 220-kilometer long transmission line costing about Rs12 billion should be finished by August 2022. The cutoff time was reached out to January this year, however that was additionally missed.
“Costs of all that from steel and concrete went up multiple times. Then the floods hit and ended all development work. Building a transmission line includes option to proceed issues, which make the cycle muddled and tedious,” he said, adding that the interaction ought to be over toward April’s end.
