Alternate ways of Power Generation is considered in Madurai Corporation

As the state is facing strong power inadequacy, the Madurai Corporation has commenced emphasising on energy generation from alternate steps like solar and bio-ethanol. During the council meeting held yesterday, a resolution has been passed to call tenders from eligible firms to establish solar projects in the corporation under the Public Private Partnership (PPP).

The resolution claimed that power supply for corporation requiring such as pumping stations and taxation centres had considerably rise after the corporation limits have been expanded from 72 wards to 100 wards. With the rising energy needs, the corporation has decided to select eligible players for solar power projects. After receiving government nod, they will moving ahead with calling for the tenders via PPP.

The present demand of the city can be projected to vary between 160 MW-180 MW per day for 4.16 lakh connections in the city.

Madurai Corporation passed important resolution on green energy to produce bio-ethanol and e-diesel by using the extra 250 tonnes of garbage generated from the newly annexed areas of the corporation. The resolution also consisted of producing electricity from bio-ethanol.

Power cuts in Madurai, Tamil nadu

2012 Ruling Government and Tamil Nadu Electricity Board,

What do you think about Power cuts in Tamil Nadu? If you just do power cut for 9:00 AM to 12 noon and 2:30 to 6 PM, how do you think we can run offices in Madurai?

How do you expect entrepreneurship to grow in Madurai, if you do power cuts for almost whole day every day? We work on computers and we need power. As a small business, we do not have strength to run companies with big UPS investments for computers. We pay proper taxes in all manners, but why do we have to get punished with power cuts?

This is completely not acceptable, if you just cut power for long hours. One or two hours in a day is accepted.

This is utter shame on the government!!

Covanta Madurai Power Corporation Private Limited

Covanta Madurai Operating Private Limited And 77% Stake In Madurai Power Corporation Private Ltd. represents the combined operations of Covanta Madurai Operating Private Limited and Madurai Power Corporation Private Limited in their sale to Samayanallur Power Investments Private Limited. Covanta Madurai Operating Private Limited operates and manages 106 Megawatts diesel engine power plant in Samayanallur, India and Madurai Power Corporation Private Limited owns and operates 106 Megawatts fuel-oil fired electric power plant in Samayanallur, India. Covanta Madurai Operating Private Limited is based in India and Madurai Power Corporation Private Limited is based in Chennai, India.

Covanta Madurai Operating Private Limited operates and manages 106 Megawatts diesel engine power plant in Samayanallur, India. The company was incorporated in 2000 and is based in India. Covanta Madurai Operating Private Limited operates as a subsidiary of Covanta Holding Corporation.

Melding community and commitment, Covanta Energy Asia Pacific takes an active civic role in the cities of Madurai and Samalpatti in India. Subsidiaries of Covanta Energy Asia Pacific Holdings, Covanta Samalpatti and Covanta Madurai operate two power generation facilities in their respective municipalities. In addition to generating much needed energy for the neighborhoods they serve, these facilities have developed extensive programs to reach out to local residents and provide health, education, and infrastructure services.

Covanta Madurai plays an important role in providing resources to improve local health care in the second largest city in Tamil Nadu. The facility has donated surgical instruments and an air conditioning unit for a local operation theatre to enhance medical treatment. Covanta Madurai even constructed a new waiting room for patients. In addition, the facility also works closely with the state government on the Pulse Polio Eradication Programme, an initiative to eliminate the acute viral infectious disease in India.

Besides working to keep local residents healthy, Covanta Madurai also helps ensure local children have the resources they need to earn an education. The facility has helped provide lighting for several schools and annually donates notebooks for students to use.

Covanta Samalpatti also enjoys an impressive record of service and has helped turn night into day for local residents. But providing much needed streetlights to nearby villages is only one of the facility’s accomplishments. It has helped build local temples by providing construction materials and provided monies to renovate local health centers and build schools. In addition, Covanta Samalpatti has donated notebooks, uniforms, and eyeglasses to improve the life of local schoolchildren.

The facility also provides health care and free transportation for medical treatment to villagers. And, in coordination with the state government, the facility supports the Pulse Polio Eradication Program. The program is an immunization effort to prevent the disease from spreading in the community.

Having said all of the above, as per the report of Covanta, it is reported that it is planning to sell the Covanta Madurai facility by second quarter of this year.

Complaints on Power Cuts in Madurai

If you have complaints on Power Cuts in Madurai, you could contact the 24 hours service conducted in K.Pudur. Please contact these numbers and register your complaints.

155333, 2520601, 2520603, 2568670, 2568671, 2568672

Power cut in Madurai, Trichy, Coimbatore and other cities of Tamil Nadu

I have been travelling to the cities of Tamil Nadu recently like Madurai, Trichy, Coimbatore etc., and I suffer for 2 to 3 hours every day without power.

How can businesses and offices running without power? What does government or specifically electricity department think about businesses running.

Some of the businesses are impossible to run without power. Not everyone will be able to invest in Inverters and Generators for their businesses.

Why is this power cut? This is lot of inconvenience for the business in these cities.
Every saturday in some areas of Trichy, whole saturday is cut!

Oh, come on - I am not sure what do they think when they plan this. It is not like olden days, when we used to run and operate without power supply. Every instrument and machine depends on power and in many times even human beings for the sake of A/C and fan facility to run.

Are we not having enough power for everyone? This is a land where we have Neyveli in the state - how does that happen?

All day long Power cuts in Madurai

Today, in certain areas in Madurai - there is all day long power cut. It is from 9 AM to 5 PM. How are people living here? It is unbelievable?!

How do businesses run here? Would they use some kind of generator/inverter?

What would residential communities do about it? How do they manage in this hot weather? Would it not affect the businesses which needs power?

What is the reason to the power cuts? Is it because there is not enough power generated? or god's sake we are living in a state where power is generated (Neyveli)!

I don't have answers to any of this! We take lot of things for granted and learn to adjust to the life, based on what is provided! We are never trying to rectify or fix the situation...

More Power for Southern Districts of Tamil Nadu: Madurai and other districts

The cabient Thursday approved setting up a 1,000 MW coal-based thermal power plant at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu, which will meet the rising demand of the southern region.

The plant would be set up by NLC Tamil Nadu Power Limited, a joint venture of the Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) and the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB).