Requests for power allocation have come from other States too
The Centre on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that the additional power surrendered by the NCT of Delhi could not be allocated to Tamil Nadu without compromising the grid security as the critical transmission elements in the North-South corridor of the southern region were fully utilised.
In its counter to the suit filed by Tamil Nadu, the Centre said “this is based on the Total Transfer Capability and ATC of the inter-regional links as well as the north to south corridor within the southern region.” A Bench Chief Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice J. Chelameswar adjourned the hearing to December 4 to enable Tamil Nadu to file its rejoinder.
On the contention that the surrendered power should be allocated exclusively to Tamil Nadu, the Centre said requests for allocation of this surrendered power were received from various power utilities, viz Assam; Tamil Nadu; Uttar Pradesh; Kerala; Andhra Pradesh; Karnataka; Rajasthan; Dadra and Nagar Haveli and they had to be heard before any order was passed by the court.
It said “the northern, eastern, western and north-eastern regional grids are connected through Alternating Current (AC) transmission line forming a synchronous new grid, while the southern regional grid is asynchronously connected to the new grid through High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) links. A.P., Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry have got allocation of 3,535 MW, 1,774 MW, 1670 MW, 3396 MW, and 505 MW respectively from the Central generating stations including stations during peak hours of the day. Thus Tamil Nadu is already the second highest beneficiary of central sector power among the southern States as on October 31, 2012”. The Centre sought dismissal of the suit.
It also blamed Tamil Nadu for the power crisis it is facing as it had not strengthened the grid for receiving surplus power.
The Southern Grid did not have the capacity to receive the available surplus power. The Tamil Nadu government had not strengthened enough the grid and the State itself was responsible for the power crisis. Eight States were demanding a share in the surrendered power and we will distribute it in a manner that each grid can withstand.
The State in its suit said “it is the right of Tamil Nadu to demand for the surrendered power to meet the extreme power shortage faced by the State. Only the Union of India is empowered to reallocate the surrendered power along with the transmission corridor which it has failed to do so.” It said “in 2012-13, due to failure of southwest monsoon, the State is facing acute shortage of power. The people of Tamil Nadu are reeling under the massive power cuts going up to 12 hours every day.
It said “Tamil Nadu apprehends that the Central government will reallocate the surrendered power to the other States which are not as stressed as Tamil Nadu is and thereby deprive the State of its justified demand of reallocation of the entire power surrendered by the NCT of Delhi.”
Keywords: Tamil Nadu power situation, power crisis, Jayalalithaa appeal, Delhi government, power surrender, Centre refusal
Light up roads, villages by pedal power. Even ATM machines be run this way. Tamilnadu's millions can show the way to decentralise meeting power needs if needed by a little change in life style and conservation.Ten million people at 50 watts power means 500 megawatts!
The pwer crisis in Tamilnadu is caused by the Tamilnadu Electricity Board itself. The people working in the Tamilnadu electricity board are lazy people. They don't want to do any work. How can the power situation be rectified if they are not working to put infrastructure in place to distribut pwer equally.
Great, then why cant atleast TN take all the power generated from the
state (Including koodankulam) until the issues are resolved? Why cant
the TN Govt stop all the freebies and invest more on the power
projects and strengthen the Grid? TN CM should take charge of the
power ministry with additional 5 - 10 ministers with more knowledge
on electricity for it exclusively and resolve the issue. Also TN
should double or triple the wind mills with newer technology to maximize the available alternate resource. Additional Windmills alone
can help us to resolve this issue.
This whole thing is eyewash; staged by Jayalalitha in order to fool the people of of Tamilnadu.
Instead of resorting to these gimmicks she must look at ways and means to complete the existing power projects as quickly as possible and also initiate the setting of more greenfield power plants. Jayalalitha must realize that people are much savvier and they can collate information from various sources and make an informed decision on things that affect their daily life.
First of all why southern grid was made an asynchronous DC line.
Was there "politics" in that decision is to be found out?
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