Advantages of diesel power plant:
- Very simple design also simple installation and occupies less space.
- Limited cooling water requirement.
- Diesel power plant are more efficient than steam power in the range of 150MW capacity.
- Quickly started and put on load.
- It can respond to varying loads without any difficulty.
- Smaller storage is needed for the fuel.
- Layout of power plant is quite simple.
- There is no problem of ash handling.
- Less supervision required.
Disadvantages of diesel power plant:
- High Maintenance ,lubrication cost and operating cost.
- Fuel cost is more, since in India diesel is costly.
- The plant cost per kW is comparatively more.
- The life of diesel power plant is small due to high maintenance.
- Noise is a serious problem in diesel power plant.
- Diesel power plant cannot be constructed for large scale.