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NTPC Darlipal unit to be commissioned in a year
Bhubaneswar: Buoyed by generation of 567 million extra units of thermal power so far this fiscal, NTPC's Rs 13,000-crore Darlipali plant in Odisha's Sundargarh district is set to be commissioned within a year.
"The first unit of Darlipalli plant with 800 MW capacity is expected to be commissioned by February 2018 and production will commence in August," Arvind Kumar, regional executive director of NTPC (East-II) told reporters here.
The second unit of the 1,600 MW power project, which will generate another 800 MW, is expected to be commissioned by the end of 2018, Kumar said, adding 50 per cent of the power generated by the state-of-the-art plant would by supplied to Odisha to meet its energy needs.
The Darlipali project is estimated to cost around Rs 13,000 crore with an investment of Rs 4,000 crore by the Maharatna PSU.
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