Team News Riveting
New Delhi, March 18
NTPC on Monday said it would start commercial operations of second unit of its North Karanpura Super Thermal Power Project in Jharkhand on Wednesday.
NTPC’s North Karanpura Super Thermal Power (STPP) project is a coal-based power plant located in the Chatra district of Jharkhand.
“Unit 2 (660 MW) of North Karanpura Super Thermal Power Project (3×660 MW) is declared on commercial operation with effect from 00:00 hours of 20.03.2024,” NTPC said in an exchange filing.
With this, standalone and group commercial capacity of NTPC will become 59,298 MW and 75,418 MW, respectively.
The first unit of North Karanpura Super Thermal Power (STPP) was commissioned in 2020. The project was originally proposed in 1996 but got delayed because Coal India Limited objected to the location of the power plant as it was coming up on a site having 6 billion tonnes of coal, and demanded a relocation.
The work restarted much later in 2014.
