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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

States have suffered an energy loss due to Reliance Power Plant

States have suffered an energy loss due to Reliance Power Plant
Shailendra Dubey

States have suffered an energy loss due to Reliance Power Plant


ALL INDIA POWER ENGINEERS FEDERARTION   
(REGISTERED UNDER SOCITIES ACT XXI of 1860), Regd. No. 24085/93
REGD HEAD OFFICE B-1A/45A, Janakpuri, New-Delhi-10058
Corres. Address of CHAIRMAN-Hydel Field Hostel, 17 Rana Pratap MargLucknow-226001

 

  No 16/AIPEF/Sasan Power Ltd                                                                           04-06-2014
         Shri Piyush Goyal
Minister Of State For Power
( Independent Charge )
Govt Of India
New Delhi
Respected Sir,
 All India Power Engineers Federation wants to draw your kind attention towards continued deliberate poor performance of Reliance owned Sasan Ultra Mega Power Plant. A I P E F has been raising the issue before M O P ,C E R C ,C E A & other relevant authorities but it has not yielded any result. Therefore I take the opportunity to raise some very relevant issues regarding Sasan Ultra Mega Power Plant as following .
2.        For the period 01 April,2014 to 31 May 2014 Sasan UMPP had a DC (Declared Capacity) of 1813.874 MU and scheduled generation of 1802.058 MU. Availability was 68.83% and PLF was 68.38%. Had the plant operated at 100% capacity it could have generated 2635.4592 MU  over this period.  At 95% capacity the plant could have generated 2503.686 MU. Considering that 95% output should have been possible the shortfall in energy is 689.812 MU( 2503.686 MU- 1813.874 MU).
Thus the procurer States have suffered an energy loss as under during last two months –
State                MP      Punjab    Delhi    Haryana    Rajasthan    U P     U’khand
%                     37.5     15            11.25    11.25        10              12.5        2.5
MU Loss        258.7     103.5      77.6        77.6          69.0          86.2        17.2
 3.        During 2013-14  the Declared capacity from Sasan was just 59%.
Declared capacity is the measure of plant availability. If a unit of 620.4 MW is fully available for the entire day, its declared capacity for the day will be 620.4×24=14889.6 MWh. For 2013-14 the declared capacity of Sasan is worked out on the basis of commercial operation of unit no. 3 from 16/8/2013 and of unit no. 2 from 28/1/2014 as under
            Declared capacity of Sasan for 2013-14                     = 2554.997 MU
            Corresponding availability factor                                  = 58.97%
 Against a given declared capacity, the schedule of generation is given by the procurer states. In view of the low tariff of 70 p/unit for the first tariff year, the effect of backing down is minimum, and almost the entire declared capacity is scheduled.
            Scheduled generation for year 2013-14         = 2524.046 MU
            Corresponding plant load factor, PLF = 58.25%
4.        A pit head thermal station with a competitive bid of about 70 p/unit for the first tariff year is suppose to run at 100% capacity on 24×7 basis. The difference between declared capacity and scheduled generation is a measure of  backing down. Thus for 2013-14 as against the declared capacity of 2554.997 MU, the schedule of generation was 2524.046 MU which indicates a backing down of only 30.9 MU. In percentage terms that backing down is 58.97 – 58.25% which is only 0.72%.
5.        As against the extremely poor performance  and availability of the order of 58-59% of Sasan ,  the performance of other pithead NTPC thermal power stations is as under.
StationPLF 2013-14 %PLF 2012-13 %
Rihand 3000 MW83.8086.32
Singrauli 2000 MW91.6192.42
Korba 2600 MW90.6890.11
Vindhyachal 4260 MW86.9390.21
Ramagundam 2600 MW86.7091.26
 Besides this the comparision of Sasan & Mundra UMPP for 2013-14 is given below:-
Sasan UMPP
Mundra UMPP
Declared
capacity
Scheduled
Generation
Declared capacity
Scheduled
Generation
2555.0 MU
2523.98 MU
26744.72 MU
22213.2 MU
%Availability
PLF
% Availability
PLF
58.97%
58.25%
80.34%
66.73%
 It is seen that while Mundra could achieve an availability of over 80%, the Sasan plant UMPP could achieve an availability of only 58.97 % which is an indication of the deliberate poor performance of  the   newly commissioned plant.
                         This proves the need to investigate the poor performance of Sasan.
 6.        As per Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) the Sasan power station was required to generate at at least 80% PLF in which case the energy would have been   3466.30 MU  corresponding to 80%PLF during period 16 Aug 2013 to 31 Mar 2014.  The energy output of the station is summarised   for period 16 Aug 2013 to 31 March 2014.
  Actual  scheduled energy 2526.224 GWh (MU)      at 58.3% PLF
Energy at 80 %  PLF                 3466.3  MU   target as per PPA
Shortfall  in generation            940.08     MU
The shortfall of generation to the extent of  940.08 MU resulted in reduced availability to the procurer States as  under
                 State               % share            Energy shortfall (MU)       Impact @Rs3.30/unit
               MP                     37.5                 352.53                                      Rs 116.335 Cr
               Punjab               15                    141.012                                   Rs 46.534 Cr
                UP                     12.5                 117.51                                      Rs 38.778 Cr
              Delhi                   11.25             105.759                                     Rs  34.900 Cr
             Haryana               11.25              105.759                               Rs 34.900 Cr
             Uttarakhand        2.5                   23.502                                    Rs 7.756 Cr
              Rajasthan            10                   94.008                         Rs 31.023 Cr
              Total                    100                 940.08                                      Rs 310.226 Cr
 While the market rate of power is taken as Rs 4 per unit (rate adopted by CERC in its order for assessment of Mundra compensation)  the first year tariff of Sasan is 70 p/unit. The financial impact on procurer States on account of reduced availability from Sasan is thus Rs 3.30 per unit.
7.Under the prevailing poor performance of Sasan as stated above A I P E F requests you to kindly issue the directions to CEA & other Govt authorities  as well as Sasan UMPP to resolve the issue  since the procurer states are losing energy at 70 p/unit from Sasan. In State like UP where there is acute energy shortage the poor performance of Sasan adds to the quantum of power cuts. It is a general feeling that Reliance is not running the plant at full capacity and they are trying to get the tariff increased from 70 paisa per unit. We are of the firm opinion that no change should be allowed after bidding process is over otherwise every IPP would  try to get the tariff revised upwards after bidding and bidding process will have no meaning.
            Hope with your kind intervention things will improve in Sasan UMPP.
Thanking you with regards.
                                                                                    SHAILENDRA DUBEY
                                                                                        CHAIRMAN
 CC. - Hon’ble Prime Minister, G O I , New Delhi
Hon’ble Chief Minister- Madhya Pradesh/Punjab/U P/Rajasthan/Haryana/Delhi/Uttarakhand
  • Power Secretary, G O I, New Delhi
- See more at: http://www.hastakshep.com/english/release/2014/06/04/states-have-suffered-an-energy-loss-due-to-reliance-power-plant#sthash.rixeFI82.dpuf

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