CHENNAI: A team of Tangedco officials, which inspected the defunct Ennore thermal plant campus last December to set up 100 small gas-based power units of 18 to 20 MW each (for a total capacity of 2,000MW), has submitted a report saying that per unit cost of production of power at the plant may be between Rs 7 and Rs 10. This is almost 150 per cent to 200 per cent more than the cost of power produced in thermal power plants in TN, which now stands at `5 per unit.
The proposal to set up these plants was announced by Power Minister Senthil Balaji in Tamil Nadu Assembly last September. The proposal was mooted by the State to utilise the vacant space available at the Ennore plant which was shut a few years ago. The Union government has also advised State power discoms to reduce dependency on coal plants to reduce air pollution.
