Udupi, October 9: The first unit of the coal-based thermal power plant of Udupi Power Corporation Ltd at Yellur in Udupi district has stopped generating power since October 7 as it has been shut down for annual maintenance.
Vice-president (Corporate Affairs) of UPCL K. Kishore Alva told The Hindu over the telephone on Saturday that the maintenance work would take at least a month, and the first unit would resume power generation in the first or second week of November. The capacity of the first unit was 600 MW.
The second unit with same capacity (600 MW) was ready. But the government had not installed 400 kV line to transmit power from it. Power from the first unit was being transmitted through 220 kV line. But a 220-kV line could transmit only 425 MW of power. “The government can lift power from the second unit if it wants to,” he said. Both the units of UPCL, which produced 600 MW each, were dependent on imported coal for power generation. The company was not facing any shortage of coal, Mr. Alva said.
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