Windmills generated 4,144 MW during the lighting peak at 7.20, Tangedco sources
Tamil Nadu's installed wind capacity is 7,400 MW
Chennai: A month after the Madras high court gave a direction against backing down of windmills, Tangedco has evacuated a record 4,144 MW of wind power on Tuesday evening.
According to Tangedco sources, windmills generated 4,144 MW during the lighting peak at 7.20 pm on Tuesday. This is the second highest evacuation of wind power by Tangedco. All time high wind power evacuation was 4,201 MW and 89.5 million units on June 25 last year.
“We are happy over Tangedco evacuating 4,144 MW of wind power. We have congratulated CMD of Tangedco and Energy department secretary for their efforts,” said Prof K. Kasthurirangaian, chairman, Indian Wind Power Association (IWPA.)
He said Tangedco was more willing to evacuate wind power with forecast supplied by them. The windmills on Tuesday supplied 84 million units to the grid, he noted.
A wind power generator said that wind power evacuation had improved a lot in the last few days. “Initially, when the wind season began in June, the wind mills were cut off from the grid for hours together resulting in huge financial losses. But the situation has improved over the period of time,” the generator said, noting that Tamil Nadu Spinning Mills Association moved the high court and got an interim stay against backing down of wind mills.
Tamil Nadu’s installed wind capacity was 7,400 MW and it constituted about 36 per cent of the total wind capacity in the country. The state received maximum generation from wind mills during peak wind season between May and September.
The second highest all-time high wind power evacuation was done on a day when the generating stations including thermal and gas turbine faced sudden outage to the tune of 2,200 mw. All the three units of 1,500 MW Vallur Thermal Power Plant, which supplied 1077 MW to the state, were taken off the grid following snapping of conveyor system. The central and state generating stations with a combined capacity of 2,038 MW were under annual maintenance. In a way, wind power generation helped bridge the shortfall created by the forced and planned outages of the central and state generation stations.
An official of Vallur plant said the snapping of coal conveyor feeding boilers on August 10 brought to halt generation in all the three units. “After the conveyor system was rectified, Unit I has been brought back to service on Wednesday evening. The other two units will commence generation by tonight or on Thursday,” the official said.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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