Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: To meet the rising power demand in the country, NLC India Limited (formerly Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited) will begin the operation of its first super-critical coal-based thermal power plant soon.
The plant, which will have three units of 660 mw each totalling 1980 mw – Neyveli Uttar Pradesh Power Ltd (NUPPL) – is being built at Uttar Pradesh’s Ghatampur tehsil in a joint venture with Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd. (UPRVUNL).
Prasanna Kumar Motupalli, CMD of NLC India, said the NUPPL power plant project received the Government sanction on July 27, 2016 and it was scheduled to be completed within 64 months. However, he said, it got delayed due to various reasons such as the Covid-19 pandemic.
The super-critical project is being built on an area of 1013.97 hectares. Of this, the power plant area is 768 hectares and the area for township projects (which includes residential complexes for employees, guest houses, hospital and school) s 68 hectares.
