Work on the execution of the first phase of 2 x 800 MW (1600 MWs) Telangana Super Thermal Power Project (TSTPP) is fast progressing at the NTPC Ramagundam to start power generation by the end of 2019.
The NTPC Ramagundam, which had won accolades in the country, for the commissioning of the power stations before scheduled time is leaving no stone unturned to commission the TSTPP before the announced schedule.
The earth works for the project is going on at a brisk pace and the NTPC had allocated the works for the installation of boiler and other machinery to reputed firms.
The NTPC is also taking all measures to ensure that the first unit of 800 MWs of TSTPP is synchronized in the month of November 2019 and the commissioned in month of January 2020 tentatively.
Similarly, the second unit of 800 MWs of TSTPP phase-I would be synchronized in May 2020 and commissioning in July 2020.
The NTPC Ramagundam is executing the project of setting up of the power project generating 4,000 MWs, sanctioned as part of the AP State Reorganization Act of 2014.
The NTPC board of directors has approved the feasibility report for TSTPP Stage-II (3 x 800 MWs).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the project on August 7, 2016. The Phase-I project would consume 8.0 million tonnes of coal per annum and utilize two tmcs of water from Sripada Yellampalli project. The coal linkage for the project was made with Mandakini-B coal mine, Odisha and Western Coalfields limited (WCL), Nagpur.
Executive Director NTPC Ramagundam Dilip Kumar Dubey said that they were adopting the state-of-the-art ultra supercritical technology for steam generators with high efficiency which results in huge reduction in coal consumption leading to less pollution of ambient air and reduction in greenhouse gas emission.
The NTPC is according top priority to environment protection measures for the Telangana phase-I project, he said. There would be high efficiency electrostatic precipitators (ESP) and the chimney would be 275 meters high. The project would also have dust extraction and suppression systems and ash water re-circulation systems.
Elaborating on the environmental protection measures being taken up in the existing 2600 MWs power plants, the ED said that they were taking all measures to ensure that they utilize 100 per cent of ash produced by the plant to check pollution. So far they had achieved 92 per cent ash utilization, he added.
The cement industry was utilising majority of ash produced by NTPC followed by Singareni Collieries Company Limited, which was using it for stowing of the mines.
