Heavy inflows increase output at Srisailam Power Station

Hyderabad: The Telangana Power Generation Corporation (TS Genco) has stepped up the power generation in the Srisailam Hydel Power Station as it received 150 TMC of water and witnessing 3 lakh cusecs of inflow during the past few days.

The Genco generated more power than the capacity of the hydel power station. Though the capacity of the station was 900 MW, about 915 MW of power has been generated here. The hydel power station commenced power generation at full capacity on Monday and it continued on Tuesday also.

The officials have been contemplating to produce more power as it has been predicted that the flood would continue for few more days in Krishna River. The Genco has begun power generation at Jurala and Sisailam Hydel Power Stations and is planning to take up the same at Nagarjuna Sagar and Pulichintala.

Chairman and managing director of Genco D Prabhakar Rao examined the power generation on Wednesday. The officials informed him that due to heavy inflows power generation to the full capacity has been facing troubles at Jurala.

Prabhakar Rao told the officials to watch the flood at every hour and continue the power generation accordingly. The water used for power generation at Srisailam has been reaching the Nagarjuna Sagar. The storage at this project has reached to 134 TMC.

The gates of Srisailam would be lifted in a day or two and flood would reach to Nagarjuna Sagar. Keeping this in view the officials of Genco are planning to produce 815 MW of power there. It is also possible to produce power at Pulichintala up to 120 MW afer water is released from Nagarjuna Sagar.