Published May 31, 2014
Summit's Meghnaghat power plant started partial commercial operations on Wednesday.
The 337-megawatt dual-fuel combined cycle plant is now generating and selling up to 220MW of power using diesel to the Power Development Board.
The company began testing its 'simple cycle' unit in February, but it could not pass the reliability test in running its plant for seven days at a stretch at full capacity of 220MW. The plant's simple cycle power generator was tripping due to problems with fuel quality, officials said.
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