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Ow, RTPS struggles to find
space to store excess coal
Coal consumption has dropped as five generating units have shut down
KUMAR BURADIKATTI
RAICHUR:
The Raichur Thermal
Power Station (RTPS), which
was struggling to get water for
its cooling towers, is now up
against another problem:
where to find space for coal
storage. With the shutting
down of five of its eight generating units due to severe
shortage of water, the coal requirement for the station has
drastically reduced.
This has resulted in coal ex, ceeding the storage capacity
, at the station, with coal supply coming in every day.
While it cannot 3tOPcoal supply as the contract with the
coal supplier cannot 'be broken, having excess coal during summer is not advisable
as it could easily catch fire.
RTPS requires 24,000
-
Coalbeing unloaded at the RaichurThermalPowerStation.
.- P:,OT:J:S.\NT'JS~ SASAR
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tonnes of coal every day for
operating its eight units (seven of which have an installed
capacity of 210 MW and
Unit-S has250 MW capacity).
It receives around 7 rakes of
coal (each rake contains
around 3,200 tonnes) every
day from. Singareni Coal
Mines, Andhra Pradesh, Mahanadi Coalfields in Talcher,
Odisha, and Western Coal\,
fields in Nagpur, Maharash-'
tra.
Keeping in mind the coal
\
requirement of Yermarus
Thermal
Power Station
(YTPS), which recently com-
menced
synchronisation,
Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd. had made arrangements to get a couple of more
coal rakes every day.The additional coal is being stored at
RTPS coal yard as rail link is
not yet established for YTPS.
As per official sources, the
RTPS coal yard is almost full,
with a stock of 6.81akh tonnes
of coal, and there is little
space for further stock. The
officials say that coal handling, particularly during summer, is a tiresome task as the
coal tends to catch fire'as the
temperature soars. Though
coal. yard staff conrinucnsly
spray water on the stock, incidents of coal catching fire are
frequent.
Since the Krishna, Basavasagara reservoir and Googal
barrage from where the water
is pumped to RTPSare almost
dry,the hope of resumption of
power generation in the near
future is also bleak.
The officialsare of the view
that only a good monsoon after the summer can bring relief.
?iiRrn~HouR~MosroTiZENSARE
ONLY OBSERVERS, NOT PARTICIPANTS
Express News Service
The Vidhana Soudha during Earth Hour on Saturday
-SATISH B.
M.G. PRABHAKAR
bserving Earth Hour around the globe has
become more of a ritual than anything else and
has lost its value. It's like the warning on a cigarette packet. Everybody knows the effects of smoking,
but smokers don't simply quit the habit because of the
message.
With campaigns like the Earth Hour, the ritual is useful, but it attracts only first-time participants and those
who are new to the concept.
These events are grim
reminders that most citi- It's time our kids are
zens are only observers and taught early on about
not participants in mitigating environmental degrada- the need to conserve
tion.
our resources as rhov are
Those who lack clarity of oniy limited and thc'rc
thought and don't under- are hundreds of more
stand the problems arising generJtions to COirw
from global warming and
climate change, don't care
to be part of the change
needed. Take till' butterflv ('IT"et in physics. It says if a
buttorflv flutte-r-s its wings ill New York.there could be
a tornado in .lapan. So we all need to understand that
everythinu we do our daily habits and lifestyle -- has
an impact (Ill SOliit' part of the world. But sadly.all of us
have fail('!! r. accept the urgency of conserving our
O
Bengalurus The two power
cuts that embarrassed Chief
Minister Siddaramaiah during his budget speech in the
Assembly on Friday were effected intentionally or were
they just due to the technical
snag?
Even as such a debate is
going on, Additional Chief
Secretary, Energy, P Ravikumar on Saturday submitted
a report to Chief Secretary
Aravind Jadhav finding fault
with two engineers attached
with electrical wing of the
Public Works Department
who are in-charge of the control room ofVidhana Soudha. Both of them have been
kept under suspension.
Meanwhile, Energy Minister D K Shivakumar has
apologised to the people of
the state. "This is really an
embarrassing incident for
both the government and the
CM," he said.
Speaker Kagodu Thirnmappa has also sought an
explanation by Assembly
secretary about power cuts
while asking them to ensure
such incidents are not re-
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Thermal PowerStation's unitstoo will have
(RTPS)generation units to be shut if situation
shut on Saturdaydue to
persists
water scarcity. ,
.
.
. ! Almatti and
472 MW power Narayanpurdams
generated,while store water for drlnkstation's optimum ingwater purpose, but
generationcapacity officials allow its use
is 1,720 MW for power generation
simultaneously.
"',.,tThe
Experts
committee
Suggestions:
would sort out
Form a high-level
issuesrelated to
committee with
release of water into irrigation, power
Krishnaand utilisaand urban develtion of water at
opment departRTPS
ment officials.
peated.
The officers on their part
said to have pointed at the
heavy load on the dedicated
line that provides electricity
to Vidhana Soudha , :MS
Building, Raj Bhavan and
Legislators Home on Friday
during budget presentation.
Siddaramaiah had to read
his budget copy while using
mobile flashlight for almost
three minutes as power was
snapped two times.
He also faced embarrassing moments when opposition party members passed
a sarcastic comment that the
CM had provjded 'Kattale
Bhagya' ~
people of the
state. /
resources.
All you have to do is drive from Mekhri Circle to the
airport in the evenings to see the kind~'
enen:~
resources going to waste in our city. Do we have the luxury of illllmill.~
so many fiOai'dingsand wasting so
much ene '''~ WecertamIy don't. It's time our kids are
tau
early on about the need to conserve our
resources as they are only limited and there are hundrcdr of wore>ge>ne>r?tir'll,
to CPl11". For each one of us
conserving energy should become a part of our qgily
lives. because if it doesn't, we Will only go further
downhill:
(The writer is energy expert a')!-~
member; FKCCY
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Kattale (dark) Bi>agya." quipped
oPPosItIon. le;lfier. .Jagadish
Shettar; while a)'other Bharanvn
Janata Party :\ q,A, said .. aile
must ask energ n.inister; D.E:.
ShlVakumar wh·.· he has taken
such revenge ag rinst the Chief
Ministor!" Far fr.m amused rulII1g. Congress Ip;.Jders had no
choice but to gr'rdgingly laugh
when the POWE'" supply was
restored. Thankfullv for them
the opposition \\01S much to~
he picture of Chief Minister
eager
know l1111reabout the
Sld~aJ'am~.i<lhbeing pel)lec1 Eudge,
s CUl1lent,(0 pursue the
by a mal sha] to read his
matter further; an!j let it drop
Budge! speech after the power
~IVll1g l\'!.r Sid;i;lramij.ie.h ~
failed for almost three minutes in
power-fill respite /
the Vidhana Sou.
dha, the seat of
power. went viral
and has now
J-if.Ji,IJer(",;\f
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{uDGET'S DARK
MOMENT
T
yJ
gained iconic sta-
tus. Opposition
parties had a
field day poking
fUll at Mr Sidda.
ramaiah,
who
.
. stopped reading
the Budget fur a while ,,,hen th ~
r"l\\'PI~_ f:iled
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STUF RIT()RII R
BENGALURU: SC\'cr:l1parts ,)(
Bengaluru faced hours of
power cuts and intermittent
supply on Saturday drawing
the ire of citizens, especially
cricket fans.
The power cuts coinLide,j
with the shut down ofCve of
the eight units at the Raichur Thermal Power Station
due to severe water fhort·
age.
The crisis affected Be·
scorn, which was s<::ram·
bling for alternative power
sources to avoid load shed·
ding ill Bengaluru,which ac·
counts for half of the State's
power consumption.
"We are shielding Bengaluru ftom the worst of the
crisis," said a senior official.
adding that Bescom is tiding
over the shortage by Imposing additional two·hour
load shedding in rurai areas.
hIJur'-.w!ln
ha\c fllll(lwt'd
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• RTPS STRUGGLES TO FIND
SPACE FOR EXCESSCOI.L I
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which is grid-ticd at
CK\'I\ r.uupu-, Bcngalu11.1, helps the- Agriculture
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r Surendra Kulkarni believes [hat it is important tu
practise before preaching. Having educated many
about the need to use renewable energy, he made it
a point to incorporate it while constructing his house.
Solar energy generated by rill' rooftop panel on this rc-
This is among
several
otherinitiatives that the (;,,"V1\
has takenro tap solar energy.
According to B A Anand, A,:,sist<lnl Professor. Dt'pal"lml'lIl
nfElecn'(Jllic 1':llginccrillg. UI11wl"sitYol Agricu1tllra1Sciences
tht' l:mire C<lmpu". which is
sprl';ld 'HTIJS~· l,4()O acr('s
h(lllsing scvcJ'al dCjJartmcllts,
ha.s a maX1Ill1l1ll demand o!
600 kV/\ with ;1 monthly COIl
sllmprion of power in the·ran.\ie
of21akh 10 :~.Slakh kWH
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Rs I.G5crOft and Ihe IX1:-'b;h'~
time for thL' solar PV prlwl'r
0-..,,1
generation system at GJ(VK
campm is 15 years, 7 months
and 20 days. said An<md, who
has presenteda research paper
on it. To generate energy, the
panels arc spread across one
acre on the campus.
The ARriculttJre Enginccring Department relics on solar
energy to pump WaleI' to its
overhead tank. A solar photovoltaic submersible water
Ravishankar
Send in your suggestions on renewabe energy to
[email protected]
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them. With ,I 1S-sf"ge, threephase pinup. it has the capacity
to pump upto 40 lines of water
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meet the needs of 300 people
e-veryday," he said
The borcwcll. which was
Bengnhuu TI."ltflCPo
drilled III 200;~. is :2:;0 fCCI
lice too art"dllJ1)_t; 1111'11
dcep. The 18 SOI,H'panel:': on
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il \..villllclp farmer<;. TIIL'~'llCl'd lights ;lIld 625 hIiJlkt'J"Si:<!II;lls
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ekcmc si'<!n;ll....
into solar powered one.~startRR
ed in 2009 and within (1 year,
all solar PV signal.'iw('rc-fullcrional.1t is only during the
monsoon that they run on
conventional pow~r ... For the
• Customduty
past three years, we have paid
concessionsand excise
Rs
781akh to Bescom. VVcarc
duty exemptions.
sure we are saving a 101of
.. AccelerateddepreCiation
mont'}' by using solar Pl)WCJ","
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Issilnodal
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permissionfrom Bescomby paying a
AvailedUNREsublidy
specified fee.Their website
www.bescom.orggivescompleted~ • Credll riamoonl towards nel· • RedocIIOOIn slab rales In (ille of
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exportedenmY 10COOlUmer Nelimporter
tails of the scheme.~Wewill clear the
applications within sevendays and
IINr~·lI' i3ai,);tII[.::p\..
even service in asmany days once
• Availingown funds. Loan from finan(ialln~ilullOnl/banks
the unit is in place."Natarajasays.
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• Enter into tripartite agreement with develoDt'rby leaSing the roof
Those
gree'1
with solar
signals
annu ..~lIy.
tired scientist's house at Lake Shore Homes off Sarjapur
HIlad meets SO'};.of his electricitv needs. Dr Kulkarni, who
used to PH)' Rs 3,000 as power bills in his previous 2,000
.<;ft hOllse. now pa.vs_just R~ 700 for his present hOllse,
which is t\vice a~ibi.~. "Th(' (Well and airconciitioner consume mon' e1ectrici[\', tfwt' liSt' both these, the bill is <lnvwhere between Rs 1.500 ond Rs 1.700,"h(' Cldded.
He hasa ,1.5kVA illwrtCI lll<;t;tlled.Throughout day. Dr
I\"ulknrni said thl' energy generated is sufficiem to nm
thrcc to foUl'lights, three ttl four fans and a refrigerator.
"We have an indicator tllat beeps when there is(l shift
from solar to Bescolll power. This usually happens around
10 pm oroam." he added.
The solar water he;lIer. with :1 capacity of 200 litres, pro
vidl's t.'nollgh wCltcr 1111'thl" fJmjl~'. Dr Kulkarni said th,lt
cxcept for the:.'three wt'cksdllring the Chennai rains, when
BengalunI too was overcast, they have been able to get hOI
water throughout the year.
The installation cost for the solar water heater is Rs
29.000 and the panel cost him about Rs 3.5Iakh, However, he added that the banef)' may have to be replaced after
three years.
Reshma
pumping system dol'S 11for
Cops go
Procedure .. TImeIlne for tommiSSlonina the 5IIP1'PV PIInl
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benefits for industrial
and commercial
buildings.
30% Government
subsidy for
noncommercial and
nonindustrial categories
for using domestic solar
panelS.
Avail Bank Loan as a
part of Home loan/Home
improvement loan.
SystemAggregatorscan
avail loan from IREDAal
concessionalinterest
rate (9 9%10 10.75%).
Avail loans under
priority sector lending
upto Rs. 10 lakhs for
individuals
he says.
Nikhil Gangadhar
First
cricket ground~--to go green
.
\ ct :\S<;OCi:HiGIl\ M Chillnnswamv Stadium i~:
thefirst to enter t-he net-mete-ring
...chcmr in Knrnataka. Thev
h;wl' been st'lImg unused an~'l
\'.'\~'t.".~~ powcr
to Bcsouu fur a
VC;Il' II(JW. The KSCA at its
·Chlll1l;I."Vy,llll\·Stadiumhas
put
up <1400 kV slllar photovoltaic
Ptl\Vt'l" pl:ult Therl' j" :i sn'pL'
II' ;ldd :1I!u(]wr ROOI, V in tht'
(·pnliJlg(Liy .....
Vina.\"Ml"lllln'llll.i'I'_';I.I\SCI\
SPOkl·SJltT..;on;llld 1I1;lmlging
('olllTllilllT lnl'llllwr (I,lims
!h;lttlK~'n("h'llr,HtTllil\
I.lh?s
pride in "SCI\ ht"ill.l', rl1c first
cricket sladul111 tll h:n"t' gon('
\_;l'I_'L'n. "II makl'~; t'l"ilnumir
~t'IlS<:t, ) tI(i 1Ili.,.;llld tilt' \urplus
!l0\\'t'l' w(JlJld he' c"pI)rlcd 10
[ht' grid." he said.
The sobrpower plantof 400
kW, generates 6 lakh lInit.~ a
year. Ry adding another ROO
kW in the near future, the gen('ration v.ill bl' 18bkh a year.
The excess5 lakh units
be
exported to the grid. he says.
BCSCOIll wOllld pay Rd 9.56
a unit and rhe hreake\'t.'ll will
be achieved in 4 veal's.
,·It has btx'lI"a challenge,
however, I think the level of pre-
wlll
.1
parcdncss tor tlus project 1'1 VI(It'd. Till' ro()f 11:1."hecn rc
again the hest we 11,1\'1'r-ve-r
stored 1"1·\\';\1(""1' 11r.}'ltlllglJsillJ.;
S~'CI1."he adde-d
~jcll'qll:lll' U'D!\!! rllbher gas
[11 1111'LIst nnl' \"(,,11". Ihe
h'ls ~lJld ",':l1l11f·.;1.1.:>·nb
h:SC·\ lu\ s:)Ii('d Hs CO I;d.:h,
SOI,\1 invcrter ....u~'wd in the
\'.'hich Illean< thl'v arc s;1Ving phil( U"I' clJnjn~:·t'clgetechno 1I{~4 lilIdl a lIl'lIlth on P<I~"'l'l Il~:y.Tiley :lrc hig;lly dficicil
biil:-:h~'st'llin/ P{l\\'Cf and 111:1k- cieri!' COlllpaCI in size ;lI1d 0/
int! lise ()f tlwir 11WJI
~:t'nl'I';ltl!)11 illT(Tn;ltinn:ll qllalitvt(l ('IlS111'I'
for daily ('()IlSUlllptIUl1.
....mooth phllttl\'ol;;ic -"_VSH'J!1
"We stIll draw power Irorn
Bcscom. hut the dt'pt'rlllcilcy
has redllcccI to i1 gl"l';lt t·....lcnt."
:\1flllhvLJlljava says.
Whiic'inst:alhngsnlar pllllt(
;1h,l!"sh olddolJr t'm;voltaic modules on thecxislllig
ronml'Il[\. There :lfe 20 string
roof-top (ea'item ~;de of the sta- inverters placed heneath the
dium), a sp('cial mounting
n)uf with proper H'Utill,!!, of instructure with mild steel and coming and olltgoing cablesas
aluminium has, been designed
""lose as p<.lssible 11) the solar
to fix a total of 1.422 units of modules
solar photovoltaic modules ra"It IS worth mentioning that
dially along the roof. For easy the project was executed with
and safe maintcll.:lIlCe , a cat- c!IKliwork preciSion in -t=i d:1.vs.
walk .<>tmcruJ"t' (X :md Y,'\XJSi,
Which nll':lI1.<,. 1 k\V pvr hour .
saft'ty r"il.~.,lrrangemem for and with high accl'racy," said
Ol<lmlaJ/autolllaricwaterdean· !vlruthYllnjaya.
ing of modules have becn pro- RS
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Benefits
• ReduceYour ElectriCity
Bill and Save Money.
• Payback Penod:1012
Years.
• Sell Your Own Green
Power and Earn Money.
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