New power projects taken up after the formation of Telangana State have started reaching the generation stage with the 800 MW seventh-unit of Kothagudem Thermal Power Station (KTPS) getting ready for commercial generation from next month onwards.
The trial run of the power plant has been on for the last couple of months and it is ready for commercial operation from next month, D. Prabhakar Rao, Chairman and Managing Director of Telangana State Power Generation Corporation Ltd (TS-Genco) said here on Friday.
At a meeting to review the progress of new power projects, he said the construction of 4×270 MW (1,080 MW) Bhadadri Thermal Power Project was in progress and the first two units were expected to start the generation in March next and the remaining two units would go on stream from December next year.
On the production of coal from Tadicherla mines of TS-Genco, Mr. Rao said it commenced production from the first week of this month and the present capacity was between 1,200 tonnes and 1,500 tonnes a day.
The Thadicherla mines have 70 million tonnes of coal reserves that are expected to last for the next 30 years for the captive consumption of Genco.
In the next two years, the new plants would make a capacity addition of 3,480 MW in the State and another 4,000 MW in two more years later.
He reviewed the progress of KTPS, BTPP, 5×800 MW Yadadri Thermal Power Station and 4,000 MW Telangana Thermal Power Project of NTPC.
Executive Director (South) of NTPC, Dilip Kumar Dubey, General Manager K. Sudarshan, Joint MD of TS-Transco C. Srinivasa Rao and others attended the meeting.
On the progress of 2×800 MW NTPC plant coming up at Ramagundam as part of the 4,000 MW project, Mr. Dubey explained that the construction was in full swing and the first unit of the first stage (1,600 MW) would be in a position to start generation from November next year and the second unit three months after that.
The second stage of 3×800 MW plant would commence after that as land and water were available already.
