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Thursday, Aug 24, 2006

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Capacity of NTPC's Simhadri plant to be doubled

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: The capacity of the National Thermal Power Corporation's 1,000 MW Simhadri power station at Visakhapatnam is proposed to be doubled.

However, the additional capacity will be distributed among the eligible States and will not be "dedicated" to Andhra Pradesh like in the case of the existing capacity of 1,000 MW.

Announcing this to reporters here on Wednesday, NTPC Chairman and Managing Director T. Shankaralingam said there was no such expansion plan for the Ramagundam complex in view of the space constraint there.

The complex has an installed capacity of 2,600 MW now.

The CMD said the NTPC would add 3,210 MW this year to its existing capacity (26,194 MW).

Plans had been prepared to add 21,000 MW by 2012 and another 25,000 MW by 2017. On the hydel generation side, it would add 6,711 MW by 2012. He said the undertaking was bidding for an ultra mega project to be set up at Sasun in Madhya Pradesh.

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