The Punjab State Power Corporation limited’s (PSPCl) thermal plant at lehra Mohabat has been awarded by the Central Electricity Authority under category of Performance of Thermal Power Stations.
Announcing this, PSPCl’s chairman-cum-managing director (CMD) KD Chaudhri said that Chaudhri it was a proud moment for the people of Punjab and PSPCl that Guru Hargobind Thermal Power Station, which is our latest thermal plant, has been selected for award for its excellent performance in 2013-14.
He said that the award was given by the Union Minister of State for Power and Coal and Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal to Chaudhri at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.
CMD said that the plant generated 66,650 lakh units (lUs) during 2013-14, its heat rate remained very low at 2396 Kcal/KWh against PSERC target of 2,500 Kcal/KWh.
“Its auxiliary consumption remained 8.21 percent against target of 8.50 per
cent, oil consumption remained 0.32ml/KWh against 1.0ml/KWh and DM water make up for all four units remained at its lowest ever value of 0.56 per cent, thus saving crores to the corporation and nation,” he said.
He said that during 2013-14, plant’s Unit I and IV ran continuously for 103.51 days and 123.47 days respectively. “Annual maintenance of Unit IV was completed in 14.69 days against approved shut down of 20 days bringing additional 318 lUs at bar. Plant availability factor was 97.30 per cent which is highest ever,” he added.
Chaudhri said that GHTP has taken a lead in cutting down capital overhauling period from traditional 45 days to 30 days and annual overhauling period from 20 days to 14 days.
“last year too, the plant received Meritorious Productivity Award for 2011-12 and 2012-13. Such excellent performances are result of team effort with motivated engineers and officials who always tries to achieve higher goals than the given targets,” he said.