Power plant officials in China to oversee repair
Tribune News Service

Yamunanagar, October 15
Top government and Haryana Power Generation Corporation Ltd (HPGCL) officials have gone to China to see the progress of work done on the damaged rotor of Yamunanagar Thermal Power Plant (YTPP).

According to highly placed sourced within the HPGCL, Ajit Bansal Secretary Power, Anurag Aggarwal, managing director of HPGCL and Sushil Bansal, Director HPGCL, have flown to Shanghai to discuss the matters relating to unit number 2 of the Yamunanagar Thermal Plant.

The YTPP which was awarded Gold Shield for meritorious performance after being re commissioned in 2008, has been lying out of operations since March, this year, after both the 300 MW capacity units installed at the plant suffered a breakdown. While unit I failed on March 31 following the failure of turbine blades, unit II had not been generating any power since September last year, following rotor problems.

After the failure of turbine blades of unit I, the equipment was transported from Yamunanagar to China by sea in June for repairs as it could not be repaired in India. The sources said now the equipment was in the final stages of repair and two engineers from YTPP were in Shanghai to oversee the testing.

They said that it may take three or four months before the unit was operationalised at the Yamunanagar Thermal Power Plant as even after completion of the repairs, it would take another two months for it to reach the plant site. After which it may take four to six weeks to start the unit again.

Meanwhile, unit 2 of the plant which had suffered damage to turbine rotor on September 25, last year, has been received at the plant site and is being again installed. The rotor had been sent to Baroda works of Siemens for repair on which the HPGCL had to spent about Rs 5 crore. The sources said that the rotor would be put back into operation after balancing works. The engineers here are expecting to restart the unit within a few days.