Shailendra Dubey
States have suffered an energy loss due to Reliance Power Plant
ALL INDIA POWER ENGINEERS FEDERARTION
(REGISTERED UNDER SOCITIES ACT XXI of 1860), Regd. No. 24085/93
REGD HEAD OFFICE B-1A/45A, Janakpuri, New-Delhi-10058
Corres. Address of CHAIRMAN-Hydel Field Hostel, 17 Rana Pratap MargLucknow-226001
|
| No 16/AIPEF/Sasan Power Ltd 04-06-2014 |
Shri Piyush Goyal
Minister Of State For Power
( Independent Charge )
Govt Of India
New Delhi
Respected Sir,
All India Power Engineers Federation wants to draw your kind attention towards continued deliberate poor performance of Reliance owned Sasan Ultra Mega Power Plant. A I P E F has been raising the issue before M O P ,C E R C ,C E A & other relevant authorities but it has not yielded any result. Therefore I take the opportunity to raise some very relevant issues regarding Sasan Ultra Mega Power Plant as following .
2. For the period 01 April,2014 to 31 May 2014 Sasan UMPP had a DC (Declared Capacity) of 1813.874 MU and scheduled generation of 1802.058 MU. Availability was 68.83% and PLF was 68.38%. Had the plant operated at 100% capacity it could have generated 2635.4592 MU over this period. At 95% capacity the plant could have generated 2503.686 MU. Considering that 95% output should have been possible the shortfall in energy is 689.812 MU( 2503.686 MU- 1813.874 MU).
Thus the procurer States have suffered an energy loss as under during last two months –
State MP Punjab Delhi Haryana Rajasthan U P U’khand
% 37.5 15 11.25 11.25 10 12.5 2.5
MU Loss 258.7 103.5 77.6 77.6 69.0 86.2 17.2
3. During 2013-14 the Declared capacity from Sasan was just 59%.
Declared capacity is the measure of plant availability. If a unit of 620.4 MW is fully available for the entire day, its declared capacity for the day will be 620.4×24=14889.6 MWh. For 2013-14 the declared capacity of Sasan is worked out on the basis of commercial operation of unit no. 3 from 16/8/2013 and of unit no. 2 from 28/1/2014 as under
Declared capacity of Sasan for 2013-14 = 2554.997 MU
Corresponding availability factor = 58.97%
Against a given declared capacity, the schedule of generation is given by the procurer states. In view of the low tariff of 70 p/unit for the first tariff year, the effect of backing down is minimum, and almost the entire declared capacity is scheduled.
Scheduled generation for year 2013-14 = 2524.046 MU
Corresponding plant load factor, PLF = 58.25%
4. A pit head thermal station with a competitive bid of about 70 p/unit for the first tariff year is suppose to run at 100% capacity on 24×7 basis. The difference between declared capacity and scheduled generation is a measure of backing down. Thus for 2013-14 as against the declared capacity of 2554.997 MU, the schedule of generation was 2524.046 MU which indicates a backing down of only 30.9 MU. In percentage terms that backing down is 58.97 – 58.25% which is only 0.72%.
5. As against the extremely poor performance and availability of the order of 58-59% of Sasan , the performance of other pithead NTPC thermal power stations is as under.
| Station | PLF 2013-14 % | PLF 2012-13 % |
| Rihand 3000 MW | 83.80 | 86.32 |
| Singrauli 2000 MW | 91.61 | 92.42 |
| Korba 2600 MW | 90.68 | 90.11 |
| Vindhyachal 4260 MW | 86.93 | 90.21 |
| Ramagundam 2600 MW | 86.70 | 91.26 |
Besides this the comparision of Sasan & Mundra UMPP for 2013-14 is given below:-
Sasan UMPP
|
Mundra UMPP
| ||
Declared
capacity
|
Scheduled
Generation |
Declared capacity
|
Scheduled
Generation |
2555.0 MU
|
2523.98 MU
|
26744.72 MU
|
22213.2 MU
|
%Availability
|
PLF
|
% Availability
|
PLF
|
58.97%
|
58.25%
|
80.34%
|
66.73%
|
It is seen that while Mundra could achieve an availability of over 80%, the Sasan plant UMPP could achieve an availability of only 58.97 % which is an indication of the deliberate poor performance of the newly commissioned plant.
This proves the need to investigate the poor performance of Sasan.
6. As per Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) the Sasan power station was required to generate at at least 80% PLF in which case the energy would have been 3466.30 MU corresponding to 80%PLF during period 16 Aug 2013 to 31 Mar 2014. The energy output of the station is summarised for period 16 Aug 2013 to 31 March 2014.
Actual scheduled energy 2526.224 GWh (MU) at 58.3% PLF
Energy at 80 % PLF 3466.3 MU target as per PPA
Shortfall in generation 940.08 MU
The shortfall of generation to the extent of 940.08 MU resulted in reduced availability to the procurer States as under
State % share Energy shortfall (MU) Impact @Rs3.30/unit
MP 37.5 352.53 Rs 116.335 Cr
Punjab 15 141.012 Rs 46.534 Cr
UP 12.5 117.51 Rs 38.778 Cr
Delhi 11.25 105.759 Rs 34.900 Cr
Haryana 11.25 105.759 Rs 34.900 Cr
Uttarakhand 2.5 23.502 Rs 7.756 Cr
Rajasthan 10 94.008 Rs 31.023 Cr
Total 100 940.08 Rs 310.226 Cr
While the market rate of power is taken as Rs 4 per unit (rate adopted by CERC in its order for assessment of Mundra compensation) the first year tariff of Sasan is 70 p/unit. The financial impact on procurer States on account of reduced availability from Sasan is thus Rs 3.30 per unit.
7.Under the prevailing poor performance of Sasan as stated above A I P E F requests you to kindly issue the directions to CEA & other Govt authorities as well as Sasan UMPP to resolve the issue since the procurer states are losing energy at 70 p/unit from Sasan. In State like UP where there is acute energy shortage the poor performance of Sasan adds to the quantum of power cuts. It is a general feeling that Reliance is not running the plant at full capacity and they are trying to get the tariff increased from 70 paisa per unit. We are of the firm opinion that no change should be allowed after bidding process is over otherwise every IPP would try to get the tariff revised upwards after bidding and bidding process will have no meaning.
Hope with your kind intervention things will improve in Sasan UMPP.
Thanking you with regards.
SHAILENDRA DUBEY
CHAIRMAN
CC. - Hon’ble Prime Minister, G O I , New Delhi
Hon’ble Chief Minister- Madhya Pradesh/Punjab/U P/Rajasthan/Haryana/Delhi/Uttarakhand
- Power Secretary, G O I, New Delhi
No comments:
Post a Comment