BL reported that after hectic restoration works, the power generation in first of seven units of 110 MW each of the Srisailam right bank 500 MW coal based power house located near Vijayawada in AP. The rest of the six units will also get into generation mode within one week each thereafter.

Mr AK Goel special chief secretary of Energy told reporters that this was a major development and efforts have been initiated to bring the 500 MW Vijayawada thermal power station, which is affected by teething troubles and also a blast recently.

Mr K Vijayanand MD of AP Genco said that water from the submerged power house was removed by using pumps and a team of engineers from BHEL deployed for repair works.

The power house was fully submerged during the floods on October 2, causing huge loss including creating energy shortage. Earlier, the AP Genco commenced hydel power generation from all the 6 units of 150 MW each of the other hydel project of Srisailam. The power generation from the plant was stopped due to over flooding. It is contributing about 16 million units a day now.

(Sourced from Business Line)