MAPUSA: Goa Foundation director Claude Alvares, reacting to Environment Minister Nilesh Cabral’s statement that the Tamnar project is needed in the State said this was contrary to what the minister had said earlier.
Alvares said, “What Cabral is saying today is completely contrary to what he had said when he was in charge of the Power Ministry. At that time, in 2018-19, he had produced a paper wherein he tried to analyse the issue and problem of power in Goa. That time he had said that the infrastructure for these plants is not proper.”
In 2018-19 Cabral had written and submitted a paper where he had said
that the State receives 392 mega watts from the Western Grid and 100 MW from the Southern Grid totalling to 492 mega watts.
Alvares said that Cabral has stated that the power requirement was 500 to 600 MW and the balance was got from the Indian Energy Exchange. “Then he had said there was no shortage of power, but there is difficulty in transmitting the power to Goa and receiving the same in high voltage station. So all the EHV stations are already heavily loaded and hence this load can produce the electricity to the people of Goa,” Alvares said.
He added that all Cabral said was that you might get the power from outside but internal substation are in a bad state and that once the power reaches here one has no system to receive it and supply.
