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CPCL's windmill farm begins to spin
NT Bureau
Chennai, Oct 9:
The Windmill Farm of Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd (CPCL) with 22 numbers Wind Electric Generators (WEG) with a total installed capacity of 17.6 MW of power a Pushpattur, Dindigul District was dedicated by M S Srinivasan,Secretary to Government, Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas at Rajampatti village on 6 October.
K K Acharya, managing director,
CPCL presided over the function. Significantly, the Wind Electric Generators
(WEG) put up by CPCL are synchronous generator type with the fan blades
hub directly connected to the rotor without gear box to have minimal mechanical
losses and low maintenance and the machine draws very less reactive power
from the grid. In phase-1, 11 numbers WEGs were commissioned between May
and July 2007.
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a plaque to dedicate the Windmill Farm of Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd (CPCL) with 22 numbers Wind Electric Generators (WEG) with installed capacity of 17.6 MW of power at Pushpattur, Dindigul district. Also seen are K K Acharya, managing director, CPCL, N C Sridharan, director, finance, and S Chandrasekaran, director, technical. |
The cumulative generation from these 11 WEGs as on 3 October, 2007 is 100 lakh units and the revenue accrued out of these 11 WEGs is Rs 2.9 crore. In phase-2, 11 more WEGs have been commissioned on 6 October, 2007. The 89.80 crore project has been completed in five months time from the date of award of contract. Presently, the power generated is sold to Tamilnadu Electricity Board (TNEB) under the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in sale mode.
Once the Sea Water Desalination plant being set up by the CPCL near Ennore port is commissioned by December 2007, the power generated from these machines will be used for feeding the 'Sea Water Desalination Plant' through an arrangement (wheeling under captive mode) with TNEB. About 36 million kwhrs per annum of power will be generated from this wind farm, which would be clean, green and renewable. Power generation of this capacity through conventional power plants would emit about 20,000 MT of green house gas to the atmosphere.
Process of obtaining Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) benefits is already underway. With the current trend, the estimated CDM revenue is around Rs 80 lakh per annum, which is of recurrent nature till the project life cycle of 20 years. With the commissioning of wind farm, CPCL is not only entering into the non-conventional energy source, but also committed to produce clean, green and renewable power.
With this small step in reducing
global warming, CPCL aims to make major inroads into non-conventional energy.