Southwest monsoon fails to cheer KSEB

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Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsThe southwest monsoon may have made a welcome comeback this week, but the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is not cheering yet. Power-wise, the state will be safe only if the rains continue, the KSEB officials said.Present water-levels in the hydel reservoirs are ‘satisfactory’, according to the KSEB, but it is still well below lasts year’s volume.At present, the reservoirs have water enough to generate 1,083 million units (MU).“Last year this time, the reservoirs had water for generating roughly 2,600 MU,” KSEB member (transmission and generation operations) M Mohammedali Rawther said. The daily energy demand in the state hovers around 55 MU.But the power utility can breathe easy only if the rainfall sustains in the coming weeks in the catchments areas of the dams.The reservoir of the state’s biggest hydel project, 780 MW Idukki, is only 19.41 per cent full according to the KSEB. There is water enough to generate 425 MU there. Sabarigiri, the second biggest is 22.5 per cent full, with water to generate 206 MU of electricity.The KSEB is also purchasing heavily, to the tune of 350 MW, from National Thermal Power Corporation’s (NTPC) Rajiv Gandhi Combined Cycle Power Project (RGCCPP), Kayamkulam, to meet the daily demand.first published:August 18, 2012, 12:02 ISTlast updated:August 18, 2012, 12:02 IST
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The southwest monsoon may have made a welcome comeback this week, but the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is not cheering yet. Power-wise, the state will be safe only if the rains continue, the KSEB officials said.

Present water-levels in the hydel reservoirs are ‘satisfactory’, according to the KSEB, but it is still well below lasts year’s volume.

At present, the reservoirs have water enough to generate 1,083 million units (MU).

“Last year this time, the reservoirs had water for generating roughly 2,600 MU,” KSEB member (transmission and generation operations) M Mohammedali Rawther said. The daily energy demand in the state hovers around 55 MU.

But the power utility can breathe easy only if the rainfall sustains in the coming weeks in the catchments areas of the dams.

The reservoir of the state’s biggest hydel project, 780 MW Idukki, is only 19.41 per cent full according to the KSEB.

There is water enough to generate 425 MU there. Sabarigiri, the second biggest is 22.5 per cent full, with water to generate 206 MU of electricity.

The KSEB is also purchasing heavily, to the tune of 350 MW, from National Thermal Power Corporation’s (NTPC) Rajiv Gandhi Combined Cycle Power Project (RGCCPP), Kayamkulam, to meet the daily demand.