Powerful Solutions
text of letter sent to press (10th Oct, '06):
Finally, it required a businessman - politician, Mr Rajiv Chandrasekhar, to come up the most sensible of solutions to the endless power problems faced by the state. His offer is to set up a 1000 MW generating station near Ennore port in Tamilnadu (close to Chennai), on a power sharing basis, and based on imported coal, and transmit Karnataka's share to Bangalore, vide the report in your columns on the 9th instant. This arrangement totally avoids carting of coal all the way here and burning it in our back-yard, and the myriad problems attendant to it, opting for the highly efficient and clean power transmission process instead. What apparently has not been appreciated by the powers that be in the state so far is that it is lot more economical as well as sensible to generate power at a point which calls for least transportation of coal.
The Reliance Anil Ambani group is also reportedly setting up of a massive 12,000 MW pit-head thermal power station in Orissa. 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 all these tie-ups to go through, the payment arrangements, which are currently notorious, have to be smoothened out. The simplest way to ensure this would be to hand-over the distribution in cities Bangalore also to Reliance or to Mr Chandrasekhar's company. Even better would be to split the Bangalore load 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 arrangements worked out, the TADADI and Nandikoor projects, proposed to be located in our eco-sensitive coastal areas, can be given a quiet burial.
Finally, it required a businessman - politician, Mr Rajiv Chandrasekhar, to come up the most sensible of solutions to the endless power problems faced by the state. His offer is to set up a 1000 MW generating station near Ennore port in Tamilnadu (close to Chennai), on a power sharing basis, and based on imported coal, and transmit Karnataka's share to Bangalore, vide the report in your columns on the 9th instant. This arrangement totally avoids carting of coal all the way here and burning it in our back-yard, and the myriad problems attendant to it, opting for the highly efficient and clean power transmission process instead. What apparently has not been appreciated by the powers that be in the state so far is that it is lot more economical as well as sensible to generate power at a point which calls for least transportation of coal.
The Reliance Anil Ambani group is also reportedly setting up of a massive 12,000 MW pit-head thermal power station in Orissa. 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 all these tie-ups to go through, the payment arrangements, which are currently notorious, have to be smoothened out. The simplest way to ensure this would be to hand-over the distribution in cities Bangalore also to Reliance or to Mr Chandrasekhar's company. Even better would be to split the Bangalore load 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 arrangements worked out, the TADADI and Nandikoor projects, proposed to be located in our eco-sensitive coastal areas, can be given a quiet burial.
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