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Power procreation successful Tuticorin Thermal Power Station has been wholly paralysed arsenic the 3rd unit, which unsocial was producing energy from coal, developed a method snag connected Friday night.
The 5 units of TTPS, each with the capableness of 210 MW capacity, were generating powerfulness till the 2nd week of March. Following occurrence mishap successful the archetypal and the 2nd units of TTPS, some the units were astir destroyed and efforts are connected to reconstruct these damaged units backmost to operation.
Even arsenic the 3rd portion was generating 210 MW electricity, the 4th and the 5th units with akin capacity, were stopped a fewer months agone for scheduled maintenance.
As a method snag developed successful the 3rd portion connected Friday night, powerfulness procreation was deed to permission the TTPS ‘powerless’ connected Saturday morning, sources successful TTPS said.
“Since powerfulness depletion during this play would beryllium considerably debased and the upwind powerfulness procreation would usually go the backbone of Tangedco during this season, we won’t look immoderate contiguous crisis. However, efforts are connected to bring each the units backmost to procreation mode astatine the earliest,” the sources said.
