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TNEB Golden Jubilee celebration

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CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) has initiated steps for installing four more power projects in the State totalling 2,500 MW at a total project cost of Rs 10,000 crore.

Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi will unveil the plaques for the new projects as part of the golden jubilee celebrations of the Board here on July 2.

The projects are North Chennai Thermal Station (500 MW), Mettur Thermal Station (500 MW), Kundah Storage Hydro-Electric Project (500 MW) and Tuticorin Thermal Power Project (two units of 500 MW each). In addition to this, the 2,000 MW Koodankulam Atomic Power Plant will become operational before the end of next year when the State would get another 806 MW as its share.

Claiming that the State is one among the few states to have surplus power, Electricity Minister Arcot N. Veeraswami said as against its requirement of 8500 MW, the installed capacity was 10,098 MW.

The surplus power was being sold to Maharashtra and Punjab at Rs 5.02 per unit.

Denying that there was an “unannounced power cut” in the State, the Minister, however, admitted that there was power shutdown in some parts of the State. This was due to shortage of transformers. The Minister said when the new Government took charge in May last, the Board was in need of 15,000 transformers. In the last one year, about 8,000 transformers had been procured and another 10,000 transformers would be purchased before the current year. Tenders had been floated for the purchase.

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