NTPC Simhadri Super Thermal Station is looking for acquiring land in the vicinity to expand its capacity of its 2,000 MW coal-fired power plant at Parawada near here.
“We are conducting an internal assessment on finding out viability of acquiring 400 acres so as to take up construction of a super critical power plant adjoining our power plant,” NTPC Simhadri Group General Manager A.K. Samanta told reporters here on Monday.
He said they were assessing viability of setting up a super critical unit to generate 650 or 800 MW additionally so as to make it a cost-effective green power project. A Brownfield project will have a production cost of less than Rs.5 crore per megawatt whereas for a Greenfield unit it will be more than Rs.5 crore per megawatt.
Awaiting clearance
Stating that they were going ahead with 4,000 MW ultra mega plant at Pudimadaka, he said clearances for the Greenfield project were being obtained.
Both Parawada and Pudimadaka projects of NTPC are located at a distance of 50 km. The terms of reference and revised layout plan for Pudimadaka project proposed with an investment of Rs.20,000 crore is awaiting clearance from Ministry of Environment and Forests.
To a question, he said there was a significant improvement in raw material security with supply of coal from Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd of Odisha. He said they were meeting the shortfall from sourcing coal from other coalfields and imported it from abroad. He said the Simhadri station was revived to normal generating mode in a very short period of four days from the severe damage caused by Hudhud Cyclone.
