The 2,600 MWs National Thermal Power Corporation limited in Ramagundam is all set for expansion of its power station by adding two more power generating units of 800 MW each during this financial year 2015-16.
Talking to newsmen here on Tuesday, NTPC Ramagundam executive director R.K. Srivatsava said that the environmental study assessment was done by their agency and would submit the same to the Telangana State Pollution Control Board and the Union Government. The 1,600 MW project site and everything else is ready for the start of the execution of the project. It is waiting only for the State Government’s nod for the allocation of land for the ash pond in the vicinity, he maintained.
Once the State Government allocates land for the ash pond, the company would go for the public hearing for the proposed 2 x 800 MWs power plant, he noted.
The ED said that the coal linkage for the proposed power plant was being done with the Singareni Collieries Company Limited and added that they would be using 70 per cent of coal from the Singareni and the remaining 30 per cent would be imported from other agencies in the country and abroad.
With regard to the expansion of the solar power plant at the NTPC Ramagundam, he said that they were already generating solar power through the existing 10 MWs of power plant and the expansion of 15 MW of solar power plant would be taken up after the power purchase agreement with the Telangana State Government was signed.
