The Centre today said the technical feasibility and environmental impact assessment has been done for enhancing capacity of NTPC's Ramagundam Plant. It will help generate additional 4,000 MW of power in the Central Sector for Telangana.<br/><br/>Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said in a statement that as per the commitment made in Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act for creation of additional power generation<br/>capacity of 4,000 MW for Telangana, NTPC's Ramagundam plant is being expanded in two Phases.<br/><br/>In the first phase, two units of 800 MW and in second phase, three units of 800 MW will be added, the statement said, adding that for this purpose technical feasibility study has been completed and environmental impact study has also been done. The present generation capacity of Ramagundam NTPC plant is 2,600 MW of which Telangana is allocated 726 MW as its share.<br/><br/>The minister informed that the Bhupalapalli power plant, where 500 MW power capacity in Phase-I is already commissioned, another 600 MW in Phase-II is scheduled for commercial operation from this month end. <br/><br/>The minister added the government is ready to allocate two solar parks of 500 MW power capacity each to Telangana, for which the state has to provide necessary land.
News On AIR | November 18, 2015 7:25 PM
Centre completes feasibility study for NTPC Telangana plant