The Southern Regional Power Committee (SRPC) has written to Union Ministry of Power seeking the latter’s intervention in ensuring higher power generation availability from the two units of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) during the peak summer season in the Southern region.
KKNPP’s two units have a capacity of 2,000 MW and Tamil Nadu has a share of 1,150 MW and remaining capacity is allocated to the other Southern States. Tamil Nadu has already been seeing record high power demand this summer season.
The Unit 1 of KKNPP has been under outage for refueling from January 29, 2024 and was expected to come on stream on April 16, 2024. However, the outage of the unit has been extended up to April 23 which is a matter of concern, K. Vijayanand, Chairperson, SRPC, pointed out in his letter to the Union Power Secretary.