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Wind energy - Coimbatore leads the pack ..

Evacuation of wind energy generated from wind mills in Coimbatore district will be almost 100 per cent now as the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board has created the requisite additional infrastructure.

A 200 MVA sub-station at Ponnapuram (near Dharapuram), four feeder stations and the required transmission lines are some of the works completed during the last six months

At the function, the chairman of the board, Hans Raj Verma, assured the wind mill operators that investments in the State would yield better returns as Tamil Nadu had the potential for wind energy generation and the board would provide adequate infrastructure for evacuation of the energy generated.

The member (generation), S.Arounassalame, said that efforts were initiated last September to create the required infrastructure. The works were completed with the support of wind turbine manufacturers and wind energy producers. By the end of December this year he was hopeful of completing the measures taken up in Tirunelvelli and Kanyakumari areas too to achieve complete evacuation of wind energy generated in those areas.

The chief engineer of the board, Coimbatore, S. Shanmuganandam, said with complete evacuation of the wind energy generated in this area, availability of power would improve. The capacity created now would also be able to take care of the new wind mills that were expected to be installed in the district in the next one year. Another sub-station of 200 MVA at Palladam was likely to be completed by this October.

The association chairman, P.R. Ramasubrahmaneya Rajha, said wind mill installations saw significant growth during the last two or three years. Tamil Nadu had about 50 per cent of the total wind mill installed capacity of 7,113 MW in the country. Of the 3,476 MW installed capacity in the State, 1,373 MW was in Coimbatore district. Wind electric generators should operate to the maximum possible extent during the windy season. Only with adequate sub-station capacity and transmission line capacity could there be full evacuation of the energy generated.

Courtesy : THE HINDU

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Marudhamalai Temple

Welcome you all to my first post of 2007. One of the things i have planned for this year to do some good blogging in this site. This is one of the topics i was planning to write for a long time, bit delayed as i was searching for enough material. Always anything related to Hindu God Lord Muruga is closely associated with "Siddhar". So from this article i am planing to write something about those great souls who lived in this bhoomi.

Ok .. let start with famous Maruthamalai temple in Coimbatore. Marudhamalai Hills Arulmigu Subramanyaswamy Temple is situated at a height of about 500 feet in a plateau on the Western Ghats, fifteen kilometers north west of Coimbatore, amidst lush vegetation and salubrious climate.

The Sanskrit word "achalam" denotes mountain. As the mountain here abounded in marudham trees, it came to be known as Marudhachalam. Marudhamalai is also called Marundhumalai, for it is overgrown with shrubs and bushes of medicinal properties. Hence, Marudhamalai is befittingly given the name Marudhamalai (Mountain of Medicines). This is referred to as Marudhamalvarai, Marudhavarai, Marudha Verpu, Marudha Kundru, Marudhavôngal, Kamarpirangu, Marudhachalam, Velvarai in Perur Puranam.

Standing at the foot hill, as we gaze towards the north, in the distant hills, we discern three stones in diverse colours, which are the petrified form of three thieves cursed by Lord Muruga for their sinful act of plundering the treasures belonging to the temple. Just below the stone forms, there is a flat stone which, it is said, is but the jewel box stolen by the thieves. It is said Lord Muruga came in the guise of cavalier, chased and punished them.

The deities are all of spontaneous origin (swayambhu) of Lord Subramanya with His two consorts, Valli and Teyvannai. Currently this temple is managed by Govt. of Tamil Nadu.

(To be continued .... )