Team News Riveting
New Delhi, September 27
The first unit of the 1600 MW Telangana Super Thermal Power Project (TSTPP) of power major NTPC Limited near Ramagundam in Telangana started commercial operation from midnight.
“(The) Unit#1 (800 MW) of Telangana STPP, Stage-I (2×800 MW) is declared on Commercial Operation w.e.f. 00:00 Hrs. of 28.09.2023,” NTPC Limited said in a regulatory filing today. With this, standalone and group commercial capacity of NTPC will become 57838 MW and 73824 MW respectively.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation stone for the project in August 2016.
The power plant has power capacity of 1600 MW (2×800 MW) in first phase and in total planned capacity of 4000 MW. The coal-based power plant is located near Ramagundam village in Karimnagar District.
The State of Telangana will offtake 85 per cent of the power produced by the plant, under a proposal approved by the Union Cabinet in February 2019. The first phase of the Telangana super thermal power project had been constructed in 235 acres of the MGR unloading bulb area within the existing Ramagundam STPP site.
Singareni Collieries Company (SCCL), a state-owned coal mining company, will be supplying two million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) of coal for the power plant.
