AGARTALA, April 14 (TIWN): The power generation of Monarchak gas turbine situated at Sonamura sub-division will take more two to three days.

Taking to TIWN on Monday Monarchak Project Head SR Biswas said that the power generation of Monarchak gas turbine will start after more two to three days. The power generation from the plant could not reach to the 65 MW with its capacity on its initial stage during the test run, he added.

 “We have conducted all sorts of tests that were required to start the power generation from the turbines based on gas”, he mentioned.

The total capacity of the power plant at Monarchak is 100 MW, out of which 65 MW of power will generated through gas from the ONGC and the rest 35 MW of power will be generated using the waste gas. The same procedure was taken up at Palatana OTPC.

Biswas further added that the commercial generation of power from the plant will take another couple of months to start the commercial power generation.

It is to be mentioned here that, on March 11 last the gas turbine of the power plant situated at Monarchak under Sonamura Sub Division synchronized its turbine successfully with the generation of 9 MW of power on its initial stage. And later again the turbines were synchronized as asked by the TNGCL. It may be recalled here that the ONGC had already charged gas into the 10 km pipeline from Khedabari - Sonamura GCS, to its Gas Metering Terminal at NEEPCO Monarchak.

The foundation stone of the Monarchak project had been laid by former power minister of NDA regime (current railways minister) Suresh Prabhu in 2002 with an estimated project cost of Rs 623 crore. Northeast India's biggest and the first-of-its-kind 5MW capacity solar power plant in Tripura has begun commercial production from Monarchak under Sonamura sub division. The solar power plant was set up at a cost of Rs.40 crore. The entire power from the plant is being transmitted to the Tripura power grid now.