PSPCL set up seven member committee to look after Sri Guru Amardas Thermal Power Plant
Kanwar Inder singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ January 12,2024
As per available information, Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd.(PSPCL) has set up a seven member committee to look after the day to day work of the newly acquired 540 MW erstwhile GVK thermal plant, to be named as Sri Guru Amardas Thermal Power Plant.
“The thermal power plant, acquired at a cost of Rs 1080 crore, will be named as the Sri Guru Amardas Thermal Power Plant, paying homage to the third Sikh Guru” has recently announced by the director administration Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL), Jasbir Singh Sur Singh
The seven member committee is headed by M R Bansal chief engineer Lehra Mohabbat thermal plant. The committee has three superintending engineers, one each from Ropar thermal, Lehra Mohabbat thermal and Fuel. The other members are one chief auditor and two executive engineers. They will look after the O and M (operation and maintenance) activities of Sri Guru Amardas Thermal Power Plant erstwhile GVK thermal and day to day works.
PSPCL set up seven member committee to look after Sri Guru Amardas Thermal Power Plant. PSPCL is all set to take over the plant in coming days after all the formalities are over. PSPCL has requested the coal ministry to use better quality coal from its Pachwara coal mine. With the coal from its own mine , the variable cost, upon acquisition, is likely to be around Rs. 3.40 per unit. The plant is expected to pick-up its plant load factor (PLF) to about 80 percent from an existing level of 40-50 percent, thereby reducing the per unit fixed cost further.
Three private power plants (L&T owned Nabha power limited, GVK owned Goindwal Sahib Thermal Power Project and Vedanta owned Talwandi sabo power limited) were commissioned in Punjab during Shiromani Akali Dal regime from 2007-2017. Two other private plants NPL, TSPL are working independently.
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