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For progress: Sarthak Behuria, chairman of Indian Oil inaugurating the windmill farm set up by the Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited at Pushpathuron Tuesday
UDUMALPET: Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited on Tuesday commissioned 11 of its 22 wind energy generators at Pushpathur on the Palakkad Pass, near here.Costing Rs. 89.80 crore, they can generate 17.6 MW. The electricity generated will be used to run a desalination plant coming up at Manali. the plant, which is to be commissioned in September, can treat 5.8 million gallons a day. The company has entered into an agreement with the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board to wheel the energy generated from the farm to the plant. Sarthak Behuria, chairman of Indian Oil Group of Companies commissioned the wind turbines in the presence of K.K. Acharya, chairman and managing director of Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited at Pushpathur. The remaining 11 wind turbines will be commissioned in September. Mr. Behuria said that wind energy was increasingly becoming the most commercially viable renewable energy source with zero adverse impact on environment. Wind energy was offering a direct means of dealing with fuel price volatility and it represents an important aspect of energy security. He said that Indian Oil was exploring the possibility of setting up a wind power project in Gujarat based on the ‘Part captive, part sale’ model. Mr. Acharya said that they were on the look out for a non-conventional mode of power generation. The desalination plant, near Ennore, required 54 million kwhrs of energy for its operations. He pointed out that Centre for Wind Energy Technology, an autonomous research and development agency, under the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources was engaged for technical queries and evaluation. The wind farm, installed by Enercon India, is estimated to generate power for 36 million kwhrs per annum. Power generation of this capacity through conventional power plant would emit about 20,000 tonnes of green house gas into the atmosphere. With the current trend, the estimated Clean Development Mechanism revenue was around Rs. 67 lakh per annum, which is recurrent in nature, till the project life cycle of 20 years, said S. Chandrasekaran, director (technical) of Chennai Petroleum.
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