Work on NTPCs USC thermal power plant to begin soon in Vizag

VIZAG. Work on the country`s first Ultra Super Critical (USC) thermal power plant to produce 1,000 MW in first phase will soon start at Pudimadaka in Visakhapatnam as NTPC is in the process of finalising bids for boiler and turbine-generator packages. 
 
The USC plant, being set up by the NTPC, will have 4x1000 MW units in all and is expected to become fully operational by 2020, according to Principal Secretary (Energy) Ajay Jain.
 
 
"This is the first time in the country we are taking up a USC unit of 1,000 MW. We now have only 800 MW super critical power plants in Gujarat and Krishnapatnam (AP)," Jain said on May 24.

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