Agartala, Sep 05, 2012 : With the declaration of power generation from the first unit of 726 MW Palatana power plant by the end of September, the ONGC on Tuesday inaugurated the work station for ‘gas metering’ at Palatana.
ONGC’s director (onshore) A K Hajarika inaugurated gas metering complex and had paid courtesy visit to Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and PWD Minister Badal Choudhury at Civil Secretariat before leaving state on Wednesday.
Earlier, ONGC had conducted successful trial runs of the first unit of 363 MW capacities twice before its commercial production of power. The second unit (363 mw) will start generation by this year end or early next year.
ONGC said, already a 400-KV high transmission power line has been constructed up to Silchar in southern Assam from Palatana to connect with the Bongaigaon national grid in western Assam to transmit electricity to various Northeastern states.
The stage is set for generation and works are on in full swing to generate power by the end of this month, said ONGC Tripura Power Company Limited (OTPC) General Manager Mukul Banerjee. After the beginning of full fledged generation, Tripura would be a power surplus state and all the NE states would be supplied power from this plant, he said. The foundation of the plant was laid by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in October, 2005, but bringing the heavy machines to Tripura had been proved difficult. The problem was later solved when neighbouring Bangladesh allowed India to use its territory and waterways for transhipment of the equipments.
ONGC’s director (onshore) A K Hajarika inaugurated gas metering complex and had paid courtesy visit to Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and PWD Minister Badal Choudhury at Civil Secretariat before leaving state on Wednesday.
Earlier, ONGC had conducted successful trial runs of the first unit of 363 MW capacities twice before its commercial production of power. The second unit (363 mw) will start generation by this year end or early next year.
ONGC said, already a 400-KV high transmission power line has been constructed up to Silchar in southern Assam from Palatana to connect with the Bongaigaon national grid in western Assam to transmit electricity to various Northeastern states.
The stage is set for generation and works are on in full swing to generate power by the end of this month, said ONGC Tripura Power Company Limited (OTPC) General Manager Mukul Banerjee. After the beginning of full fledged generation, Tripura would be a power surplus state and all the NE states would be supplied power from this plant, he said. The foundation of the plant was laid by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in October, 2005, but bringing the heavy machines to Tripura had been proved difficult. The problem was later solved when neighbouring Bangladesh allowed India to use its territory and waterways for transhipment of the equipments.
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