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All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) warned that thermal power plants generating 2,500 megawatt (mw) in Uttar Pradesh would be closed down if the energy sector proposals of the Union Budget 2020-21 were implemented. AIPEF chairman Shailendra Dubey has urged chief minister Yogi Adityanath to urgently intervene in the matter and save UP from an “unprecedented” power crisis.
He said that the Union Budget had proposed to shut down thermal power units generating flue gas beyond the environmental norms, and to utilise their land for other purposes. Flue gas is the gas exiting via a flue, a pipe to remove exhaust gases from a fireplace, furnace or steam generator. In general terms, flue gas refers to the exhaust gas produced at power plants.
Dubey claimed that going by budgetary proposals, three 210 mw units each of Anpara A thermal plant; two 500 mw units each of Anpara B; five 200 mw units each of Obra; two 110 mw units each of Parichha; and two 110 mw units each of Harduaganj thermal power plants totalling nearly 2,500 mw would have to be shut completely.
