Powerful Solutions - 2
text of letter sent to press (on 22nd July, '06):
The state of Orissa is estimated to have 61 billion tonnes of coal reserves, which supposedly can sustain power generation capacity of upto 100,000 MW for close to a century. Taking advantage of that, the Reliance Anil Ambani group has announced the setting up of a massive 12,000 MW power station there. Now, if our KPTCL can tie up with them, as well as with Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) for transmission of power to Bangalore, no other arrangement can rival that on cost, efficiency or even environment friendliness. However, for the tie-up to operate smoothly, payments have to be timely. The simplest way to ensure this would be to hand-over the distribution in Bangalore also to Reliance. Even better would be to have a similar tie-up with TATA's so that the Bangalore load is split between the two, like in Delhi, and you have a ready comparison of the services of the two agencies, which is the best way to keep a tab on them in a natural monopoly scenario, apart from that exercised by the KERC. Bangalore can then enjoy quality power supply, and slowly dismantle the genset, inverter, converter, emergency lamp, candle, match-stick industry, effecting a direct savings of over a Rs 1,000 crore per annum in the process.
Further, with such an arrangement worked out, the TADADI and Nandikoor projects, based on coal shipped in from across the seas, can be given a quiet burial, protecting our eco-sensitive coastal areas simultaneously.
The state of Orissa is estimated to have 61 billion tonnes of coal reserves, which supposedly can sustain power generation capacity of upto 100,000 MW for close to a century. Taking advantage of that, the Reliance Anil Ambani group has announced the setting up of a massive 12,000 MW power station there. Now, if our KPTCL can tie up with them, as well as with Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) for transmission of power to Bangalore, no other arrangement can rival that on cost, efficiency or even environment friendliness. However, for the tie-up to operate smoothly, payments have to be timely. The simplest way to ensure this would be to hand-over the distribution in Bangalore also to Reliance. Even better would be to have a similar tie-up with TATA's so that the Bangalore load is split between the two, like in Delhi, and you have a ready comparison of the services of the two agencies, which is the best way to keep a tab on them in a natural monopoly scenario, apart from that exercised by the KERC. Bangalore can then enjoy quality power supply, and slowly dismantle the genset, inverter, converter, emergency lamp, candle, match-stick industry, effecting a direct savings of over a Rs 1,000 crore per annum in the process.
Further, with such an arrangement worked out, the TADADI and Nandikoor projects, based on coal shipped in from across the seas, can be given a quiet burial, protecting our eco-sensitive coastal areas simultaneously.
posted by Muralidhar Rao at
1:37 AM
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