Team News Riveting
New Delhi, July 27
After successfully completing the trial operation, power major NTPC Limited on Thursday said the commercial operation of unit-2 of the Barh Super Thermal Power Project in Bihar would start from August 1, 2023.
“(The) Second unit of 660 MW capacity of Barh Super Thermal Power Station, Stage-I (3×660 MW) is declared on Commercial Operation w.e.f. 00:00 Hrs. of 01.08.2023,” NTPC Limited said in a regulatory filing today.
The 1980 MW power project is located in Barh near Patna. The project was conceived in 1999 during the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government but got delayed due to problem in land acquisition and other clearances.
The first unit of 660 MW was commissioned in October 2021 but the company announced its commercial operation with effect from November 2021. The company completed the trial operation of the second unit in the first week of this month.
“In line with the Corporate Disclosure requirements, we wish to inform that based on achievement of approved norms and due approvals, Unit-2 of 660 MW capacity of Stage-I (3 x 660 MW) of Barh Super Thermal Power Project in the State of Bihar, has successfully completed trial operation and consequently included in the installed capacity of NTPC Limited,” the company had said.
With this, installed capacity of NTPC Limited and NTPC group has become 57038 MW and 73024 MW respectively.
The state of Bihar is set to get 383 MW more power from the Unit II of stage-I of Barh power project. The state is getting 401 MW of power from the first unit with the remaining shared among beneficiary states like Odisha, Jharkhand, and Sikkim.
