Telangana State achieves highest PLF in country

Kakatiya thermal power plant registers 95.01 PLF, highest among all other public projects in country

Hyderabad: Thermal power projects in Telangana state made a difference this time. The projects owned by the TSGENCO beaten AP-owned projects achieving highest Plant Load Factor (PLF) for the year 2014.

The TSGENCO stood first among all state sector power utilities with 78. 31 per cent of PLF ( of the total 2282 MW installed capacity) followed by the AP projects which registered 77.96 per cent of PLF ( out of 2810 MW capacity) in the country. The third and fourth places have been occupied by Chhattisgarh and Orissa state owned power generation companies respectively.

The Central Electricity Authority ( CEA) had recently released report on the performance of thermal power stations for the period between April 2014 and December 2014). The report said Kakatiya Thermal Power Station (KTPS, 500 MW) owned by TSGENCO achieved first place with 95.01 PLF among all state and central sector power stations.

While Kothagudem project with an installed capacity of 1000 MW succeeded 79.94 per cent of PLF, Narla Tata Rao thermal plant ( Vijayawada with 1760 MW capacity ) in AP registered 79.90 per cent of PLF. The TSGENCO officials attributed the adoption of new technology and sincere efforts made by the employees working in the thermal projects was the main reason behind achieving highest ever PLF in power generation in the country. The officials said however, Ramagundam project could achieve only 46.82 PLF due to continuous technical snags developed in the recent months.

The report also said all India average PLF was registered at 65.09 per cent . The highest PLF has been registered in Southern India with 74.02 per cent. The highest PLF with 97. 51 per cent among all public and private thermal projects has been registered by Dhanau thermal power project owned by Reliance India Limited.