Highest hydel power generation by TS TS Genco in June & July exmesgouncon Hyderabad: The ‘Telangana ‘Genco has created history by generating highest hydel po- ‘wer generation in June and July months. The Genco is ge- neratinghydel powerfrom Va- rious power stations on Krishna river for the past 10 days, which has becomeama- Jor controversy between Te- Jangana and AP govern- ments. Official sources said the stategovernment has utilised about 260 million units (MU) Iydel power for state require- ‘ments for Lifting water from lift nrigation projects such as Kaleshwaram project, which ‘was just 0 MU between April this year to July’, Generally hydel power ge- neration starts in the middle New KRMB chief ‘chairman MP Singhhas. taken over chargeon ‘Wednesday. The officer of Central Water Engineering Servicesandservedas ‘Narmada Tapti Basin Organization beforehis transfer toKRMBlastmonth. Hewas appointed as chairmanatter KRMB chairman Paramesham's retirementamonthago. 1» of July or later based on the inflows from upstream areas, But the Telangana govern. ment decided to generate po: wer from hydel station in vi- ew of state requirements especially for utilizing the po- ‘werfor lift irrigation projects Statisties of T'S Genco hy- del power generation shows, thisyear 71MU was generated in May, 82 MU in June and 161 ‘MU in July. Last year in 2020- 2021,37 MU inMay Nil in June ‘and 1 MU was generated in July. Highest power genera: tion from the irrigation pro- jects was 762 MU in Septem: ber, 2020. Power generation started ‘on June 29, and started gene- rating hydel power from Sri- sailam, Nagarjuna Sagar, Ju- rala and Pulichintala, Due to dwindling inflows from up- streams of Krishna river, the power generation reduced in thepasttwodays. Officials said power gene- ration. stopped completely from Jurala as the water le- vels dipped at the project due to poor inflows from upstre- am Karnataka state.