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Kalam urges thermal power plants to cut T&D losses
Our Bureau
New Delhi
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Aug. 25
THE President, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, has asked the thermal power stations to focus on reducing the transmission and distribution (T & D) losses from the existing 31,000 MW to 12,000 MW in phases within the next three years.
Addressing power sector professionals after giving away merit awards for productivity of power stations, Dr Kalam said that the cost of reducing such losses would be only a small percentage of the cost of generating 19,000 MW of additional power.
Dr Kalam advised the Power Ministry to build a 500 MW thermal plant during the Tenth Plan designed to use exclusively either bio-diesel or solar energy.
The Minister for Power, Mr P.M. Sayeed, in his address, noted that over the past few years, the plant load factor of thermal power units has increased steadily, from 60 per cent in 1994-95 to 72.7 per cent during 2003-04. The top awards were bagged by NTPC power stations and the Andhra Pradesh State Generating Company.
The other power plants figuring in the higher category awards included units of Nuclear Power Corporation, Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd, and the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board.
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