Seven units of Lehra Mohabbat, Bathinda thermal plants trip Power generation comes to a halt for three hours

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Seven units of Lehra Mohabbat, Bathinda thermal plants trip
Power generation comes to a halt for three hours
Sushil Goyal/TNS

Bathinda, July 20
Seven units of two thermal plants, Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant (GNDTP) at Bathinda and Guru Hargobind Thermal Plant (GHTP) at Lehra Mohabbat, also in Bathinda district, today tripped, leading to disruption of power generation for about three hours from these units.

These units reportedly tripped due to a snag in the system voltage i.e. dip in the voltage in the northern grid. The fault in the power generation affected the supply to various parts of the state during these hours. However, the authorities of both thermal plants succeeded in synchronising all the seven units in three hours.

When the Chief Engineer of the GHTP, Lehra Mohabbat, MR Parhar was contacted over the phone this afternoon, he said the GHTP had two units of 210 MW each and two units of 250 MW each and due to a dip in the voltage from 220 KV to 98 KV in the grid, all four units of the plant tripped suddenly. This led to stoppage of power generation by the units. He said, however, they synchronised all the four units in about three hours and resumed power generation to normalise supply.

According to the spokesperson of GNDTP, Bathinda, units I, II and IV of the thermal plant tripped at about 10.12 am today due to a problem in the system voltage. The number III unit of the plant was under renovation at present. All these units were of 110 MW capacity each, he added.