185MW from Kudankulam nuclear po­wer project’s 400 MW

Tirunelveli: Tamil Nadu would get 185 MW from the 400 MW be­ing generated from the 1,000 MW first unit of the Kudankulam nuclear po­wer project (KKNPP), acc­o­rding to a Tangedco source.

The first unit of KKNPP, whose reactor power was increased by 50 per cent, which attained 400 MW power generation since Friday night, is steadily maintaining its generation level, according to KKNPP site director R.S. Sundar, who had stated that for the past 20 days, since November 10, when the plant was resynchronised with the southern grid in the third phase of it going on stream comm­er­cially, it has supplied 175 million units to the southern grid.

Until the AERB gives the next approval for inc­re­asing the reactor power, KKNPP was said to go on steady with generating 400 MW, which, according to a Tangedco source, wo­uld be shared among the states of TN, Karn­ataka, Kerala and Puduc­herry as per the Gadgil formula.

The source further said that if KKNPP continues to supply 400 MW to the southern grid, Tamil Na­du would get 46.25 per cent (around 185 MW), sh­a­ring 22.1 per cent (88.4 MW) with Karnataka, 13.3 per cent (53.2 MW) with Ker­­ala and 3.35 per cent (13.4 MW) with Puduc­herry. It has also been hoped that of the 15 per cent of unallocated power in the 400 MW, TN has the possibility of getting an add­itional allocation.

The Tangedco official said that this sharing had been done according to the official sharing met­hod of resources based on the Gadgil formula and the recent assurance by Un­ion minister Suda­rs­ana Natchi­appan that major power produced in KKNPP would be allocated to Tamil Nadu does not seem to have administrative sanction.