bathinda thermal plant

BATHINDA: Turbines in unit number two of Guru Hargobind Thermal Plant at Lehra Mohabbat caught fire on Sunday evening.

Close on the heels of the reports of radioactive thorium and uranium in fly ash matter found at the thermal plant site in Maharashtra, Bathinda residents have intensified their demand for shutting down of bathinda thermal plant.

The minister is talking about a new policy for auctioning of commercial and residential sites in Punjab. The state government is also working on a new legal framework for illegal colonies. The last regularization policy came in March of 2018 and there are still cases where colonies were passed without even basic amenities, like fire tenders.

BATHINDA: The Central Electricity Authority has approved Rs 519 crore for renovation and modernisation of four units of Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant, here.

BATHINDA: It is certainly not good news for consumers that at the time of sowing paddy in Punjab when consumption of power is expected to go up, three of the four units of Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant at Bathinda have been hit by a technical fault.

Two minor sisters were drowned in the lake of bathinda thermal plant under mysterious circumstances on Saturday.

The Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has decided to dismantle two units each of Guru Nanak Dev thermal plant here and Guru Gobind Singh super thermal plant in Ropar.

Chandigarh, Apr 24 () Newly appointed Punjab Power Minister Gurpreet Singh Kangar today said over 600 employees of the closed bathinda thermal plant would be adjusted in two other units.

BATHINDA: The early advent of summer and closure of three thermal plant units in Punjab is all set to precipitate the power crisis.

Angry over initiation of disciplinary action against six engineers of Guru Nanak Dev thermal power plant, members of the engineers association organized a protest on Monday.

PATIALA: In order to bring all the three thermal power stations in Punjab out of the red, the Centre government has promised the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) one lakh tonnes of additional coal.

Three units each at Lehra Mohabbat, Ropar and bathinda thermal plants continued to be non-functional on Monday, leaving Punjab with gross power generation of 1,356 mega watt (MW).

The ash from coal-fired thermal power plants is a concern for the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL). The two coalfired power plants around Bathinda (one of which closed years ago) are facing the issue of disposing of the pond ash nearly 250 lakh tonne. The now closed Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant (GNDTP) here has accumulated nearly 175 lakh tonne ash fly ash and pond ash. Guru Hargobind Thermal Plant (GHTP) at Lehra Mohabbat has 69 lakh tonne pond ash to overcome the issue. GHTP has offered any prospective user to collect the ash without any cost. It is learnt that this ash has accumulated over the years. The Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) in its recent meeting at Patiala had decided to allocate pond ash from GHTP free of cost to anyone for manufacturing bricks, tiles, cement construction of road and flyover embankment filling up of lowlying areas. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in a communication on December 31 last year had mentioned these purposes for usage of ash from GHTP authorities have stated that all possible assistance would be provided to any user who was willing to lift the ash.

PSEB Engineers Association deplores and condemned the decision of Punjab government to give go-ahead to the closure of four units of bathinda thermal plant and two units of Ropar thermal plant from January 1, 2018. They claimed that it was unfortunate and the government had closed these plants citing a baseless reason.

Accused for damaging public property by defacing signboards on the Bathinda-Amritsar national highway, Dal Khalsa vice-president Hardeep Singh Mehraj surrendered to the police on Wednesday.

PATIALA: The coal crisis has put Guru Hargobind Thermal Plant, Lehra Mohhabbat, in the red. The plant was the only one in the state with enough coal.

BATHINDA: The decreasing coal stock at three thermal plants due to the 10-day-old strike of truckers has put the Punjab State Electricity Board authorities in a fix.

BATHINDA: The bursting of a transformer of the Barnala sub-station caused tripping of all 3 operating units of the Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant here and 2 units of Guru Hargobind Thermal plant at Lehra Mohabbat on Thursday evening.