By Ifham Nizam
Power and Energy Ministry has given the green light to the Ceylon Electricity Board to repair the 115 MW open cycle gas turbine, known as the Fiat Avio plant GT7, at the Kelanitissa power station.
The Island learns the repair will cost around Rs. 745 million. CEB engineers yesterday said that Power and Energy Ministry took the correct decision by taking minimum work out of it due to the shortage of water in the reservoirs. The Fiat Plant was run for almost 24 hours daily.
According to Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka the 115 MW open cycle gas turbine will be shipped to Italy for the overhaul.
Once restored, the plant is to be re-commissioned at the Kelanitissa power station as a stand-by generator to generate power during emergency situations.
Ranawaka said that the Fiat plant had generated power 24 hours a day during the recent power crisis and therefore the authorities had decided to send the plant for its routine repairs to maintain it as a stand-by generator.
The Minister says the repairs however would be quite costly.
Ranawaka said the monies needed for repairing the plant have been added to the CEB’s annual budget.
The dispatch schedule of the plant received by the CEB last year had stated that the plant had 48 GW hours of operation time left for the next three years.
Nevertheless, the shipping of the Fiat Avio plant to Italy for repairs would result in a shortfall of about 110 MW of electricity to the country’s power supply for about one year.
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