Raichur Thermal Power Station (RTPS) has created a record by generating 41.329 million units of power in 24 hours on Friday.
The RTPS, with an installed capacity of 1,720 MW from its eight units, contributes around 30 per cent to the total power generated in the State.
Compared to the maximum generation of 41.28 million unit a day at 100 per cent plant load factor (PLF), Friday’s generation was an all-time record at 100.1162 per cent PLF, according to authorities. The RTPS bettered its own record of generating 40.094 million units at 97.13 per cent PLF on December 29, 2014. On that day, both the RTPS and Bellary Thermal Power Station had created a record in thermal power generation in the State by together generating 57.06 million units of power.
“All the units functioned perfectly without reporting any problem on Friday. As a result, the RTPS could achieve an all-time record. Completion of the annual overhauling of all the units before the onset of summer also contributed to this,” Venugopal C., Executive Director of the RTPS, told The Hindu on Saturday.
Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd. has set a target for the RTPS to generate 10,400 million units of power in the current fiscal year. The RTPS, as on January 16, has generated 8,300 million units.
The Unit 6 of the RTPS, which has an installed capacity of 210 MW, on Friday completed 160 days of continuous running without reporting any problem.
According to official sources, the RTPS receives eight to nine rakes of coal (each rake contains about 3,200 tonnes) every day from Singareni coal mines in Telangana, Mahanadi Coalfields in Odisha, and Western Coalfields in Maharashtra, apart from having a stock of 50,000 tonnes of coal at its yard. It uses around 25,000 tonnes of coal every day.
While seven units have an installed capacity of 210 MW each, Unit 8 has an installed capacity of 250 MW.
