NTPC has added 1,000 MW in the South by commissioning one 500-MW unit at Simhadri in Andhra Pradesh and another 500-MW at Vallur in Tamil Nadu.
The 500 MW Unit 4 of Simhadri super thermal power project was synchronised with the grid on Thursday night. This comes within two days of commissioning another 500 MW Unit I at Vallur.
The total installed operational capacity of NTPC-Simhadri, near Visakhapatnam, has now gone up to 2,000 MW.
Power generated from Simhadri Stage-II will be supplied to Andhra Pradesh (384.4 MW), Karnataka (176 MW), Kerala (80 MW), Tamil Nadu (197 MW) and Puducherry (10 MW).
However, the entire power generated from Simhadri Stage-I 1000 MW (2x500MW) is supplied to Andhra Pradesh.
The Vallur project was set up NTPC Tamil Nadu Energy Co Ltd, a joint venture of NTPC and Tamil Nadu Electricity Board.
PROJECTS in MAHARASHTRA
In a statement to exchanges, NTPC has informed that the company's board of directors recently accorded investment approval two power projects in Maharashtra.
One relates to Mouda super thermal power project (2 X 660 MW) to be implemented with an appraised estimated cost of Rs 7,921.47 crore and the other is for Solapur super thermal power project (2 x 660 MW) to be implemented with an outlay of Rs 9,395.18 crore.
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