175 MW production suspended from Tarbela Power Plant.ISLAMABAD, October 05, 2009 (Balochistan Times): Technical fault in Unit 4 of Tarbela Power Station (TPS (1) (Transactions Per Second) The number of transactions processed within one second. TPS is a better rating for the performance of hardware and software than the common MHz and GHz rating of the computer. ) has suspended 175 MW power production. According to Water and Power Development Authority Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) is the main government agency responsible for developing water resources, dams and electrical power in Pakistan. WAPDA was created in 1958 as a semi autonomous body for the purpose of carrying out accelerated and unified (WAPDA WAPDA Water And Power Development Authority (Pakistan) ), Unit 4 of TPS has developed technical problem due to which power productions has been shutdown from the affected unit suspending 175 MW power supply, private news channel reported. WAPDA sources said that state of emergency has been declared immediately after the technical fault came up. Repairing work has been started; however, the fault could not be traced after the passage of four hours. The same unit had also developed a major fault some three years ago, the sources added. Meanwhile, due to the fault in the unit the power production capacity from the National Grid Stations is down by 175 MW. (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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