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The Hindu
08-07-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
Second unit of YTPS to be commissioned later this month: Genco
HYDERABAD The authorities of Telangana Power Generation Corporation (TG-Genco) are making arrangements to commission the second unit of 5x800 megawatt Yadadri Thermal Power Station at Veerlapalem village in Nalgonda district later this month. One unit was commissioned in January this year. According to Chairman and Managing Director of TG-Genco S. Harish, Unit-2 was commissioned in January this year and Unit-1 would be made operational commercially later this month. The remaining three units would be commissioned by February next. Against the requirement of 50,000 tonnes of coal every day when all five units become operational, the YTPS was getting four rakes of Singareni coal by the South Central Railway (one rake carries about 4,000 tonnes of coal) and on commissioning all five units the requirement would be 12-14 rakes a day and it is (getting coal by all rakes) likely to commence from December this year. The CMD stated that the Genco has constructed a railway line from Janpahad take-off point to YTPS site with a cost of ₹500 crore. The progress of YTPS works as also the status of construction of railway siding of YTPS was reviewed at a meeting held here on Monday. The authorities of SCR who attended the meeting stated that they are fully prepared for transportation of coal required for YTPS with the existing rail network. The railway authorities further stated that they were taking up doubling of rail lines between Dornakal-Bhadrachalam Road and Motamarri-Vishnupuram to deal with the increase in traffic. The railway officials suggested Genco to examine other alternative sources of coal supply to the YTPS requirement since Singareni Collieries may not be in a position to meet the future demand. Directors of Genco B. Nagya (Coal & Logistics) and A. Ajay (Civil), SCR officials K. Padmaja, R. Sudarshan and others attended the meeting.
The Hindu
08-07-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
Record inflows into Jurala, Srisailam in May-June help 231 MU hydel generation
Despite the two major gateway projects of the Krishna Basin — Jurala and Srisailam — for the two Telugu-speaking States getting highest inflows during May-June, the last and first months of the previous and current water years, the progress of kharif cultivation has been comparably lower with the uneven spread of monsoon rainfall in Telangana. Till June-end, the first month of kharif season/agriculture year, about 56% (347) of the 621 mandals in the State have recorded either deficient (257) or large deficient rainfall, while only 44% (274) mandals have received normal and above rainfall. As a result, the cultivation of crops this season has been taken up in an extent of 43.48 lakh acres against 46.95 lakh acres by the same time last year. As usual, the cultivation of kharif crops is driven by cotton with the fibre crop already sown in 30.69 lakh acres followed by redgram in 2.7 lakh acres, soybean in 2.64 lakh acres, maize in 2.48 lakh acres, paddy transplanted in 21.14 lakh acres and greengram and jowar in 0.49 lakh acres, together. As on June 4, the mandals recording deficient and large deficient is significantly high at 218. Power generation However, the inflows received by Jurala and Srisailam projects have helped the Telangana State Power Generation Corporation (TG-Genco) generate the highest hydel energy in the recent years to ease the power utilities' (Discoms) burden of power purchases. Early flood received by the two projects has enabled the generation utility to go for nearly 200 million units of hydel energy in June and another 34 million units in May. Though, the TG-Genco went for another 101 million units energy generation during May-June at Nagarjunasagar, mostly with the water available in the reservoir with the reservoir getting 12.78 tmc ft water in May and 17.37 tmc ft in June, mostly with the water released at Srisailam after power generation and to extent with the help of rain in the catchment area downstream of Srisailam. On the other hand, Srisailam project is expected to become surplus over the next 8-10 days with the flood in the range of about 1.25 lakh cusecs reaching it from Jurala from the spillway discharge and with power generation since June 25 and in the measure up to 85,000 cusecs from June 8 to 25. Release of water from Jurala to Srisailam after power generation was also done for another 10 days in May. Discharge of flood from the spillway of Tungabhadra dam in Karnataka also commenced on Thursday (July 3).
The Hindu
28-04-2025
- General
- The Hindu
Fire mishap in YTPS Unit-II; major loss averted
HYDERABAD A major disaster was averted at the 5x800 megawatt Yadadri Thermal Power Station (YTPS) — under construction near Veerlapalem village of Damaracherla mandal in Nalgonda district — late on Sunday (April 27, 2025) night with timely dousing of fire in the Unit-I, which has been under the trial run for the last few months. According to officials of the Telangana Power Generation Corporation Ltd (TG-Genco), the oil in the Unit-I boiler caught fire following an accidental electrical spark. The fire spread to different parts of the unit spread across three floors within minutes. However, the plant engineers' swift reaction to put off fire with mobile and portable extinguishers helped douse it without causing huge damage. The Unit-II of the power plant is already under commercial operation, though it is yet to be inaugurated formally, from December 24. The trial run of the Unit-I is in progress since November 2024. Official sources said that the Unit-I has generated 278.51 million units and supplied to the grid till March-end. Similarly, the Unit-II has generated 498.73 million units of energy and supplied to the grid till March-end. The management of the Genco and the State Government have planned to start all the five units and synchronise them with the grid by May this year, but various issues have delayed their commercial operation. One of the main reasons cited, according to sources, is the delay in the completion of the railway track to the power plant to bring the raw material (coal) from Singareni mines. As a result, it is being transported by road now for the consumption of the Unit-II and trial run of the Unit-I. Lack of sufficient number of engineers to man the plant's operation is also being cited as the other major reason.
