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Power
TAPP-4 begins commercial operation
Our Bureau
Mumbai
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Sept. 13
THE country's largest power plant, Unit-4 of Tarapur Atomic Power Plant (TAPP-4) went into commercial operation on Tuesday, seven months ahead of schedule.
The 540-MW unit, the country's largest nuclear reactor, achieved criticality on March 6 and was connected to the grid in June 2005, a statement from Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) said.
TAPP-3 will follow suit about nine months later.
Tarapur 3&4 project will generate 1,080 MW of electricity, which would be distributed to Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa and the Union Territories of Daman, Diu etc. The Government would decide the share of electricity for different States.
Although the Chairman and Managing Director of NPCIL, Mr S.K. Jain, in his speech at the AGM of the company this year had said that power from Tarapur 3&4 would be supplied at a rate of Rs 2.65 per kilowatt hour, officials said that the agreement on tariff provided for some escalations.
The cost at which power would be supplied could culminate in a tariff of Rs 2.81 per kwhr, they said.
This rate would still be more competitive than power from thermal plants of the same period of commissioning, said the officials.
TAPP-4 has demonstrated NPCIL's ability and maturity in all fields of nuclear technology, according to the CMD. And this has increased the company's confidence to go to 700 MWe reactors, the design work for which has been almost completed, he said.
With the addition of TAPP-4, NPCIL now operates 15 reactors in the country with a total capacity of 3,310 MW. It is also constructing another seven reactors with a total power of 3,420 MW.
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