— Photo: S.R. Raghunathan
NEW PROJECT: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and Union Minister for Heavy Industries Sontosh Mohan Dev (right) after the signing of an MoU between the BHEL and the TNEB in Chennai on Friday. BHEL Chairman and Managing Director A.K.Puri and TNEB chairman Hans Raj Verma (left), are in the picture.
CHENNAI: A thermal power project with supercritical technology is to come up on a 900-acre ‘government poromboke’ site at Udangudi in Tuticorin district.
The 2x800 MW project with a total capital outlay of about Rs. 8,500 crore will start functioning from 2011, strengthening power availability in the State.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed here on Friday by the public sector Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) and the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) to form a joint venture company (JVC) to execute the project.
Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Sontosh Mohan Dev and State Electricity Minister N. Veeraswami were among those present when the MoU was signed by BHEL Chairman and Managing Director Ashok K. Puri and TNEB Chairman Hans Raj Verma.
The JVC is expected to be in place in about three months. The project work would commence shortly thereafter.
The public sector undertaking has fully equipped itself to produce thermal power equipment for 800 MW sets with supercritical parameters, suited to Indian conditions, using Indian and imported coal.
Boilers and turbine generators would be manufactured to state-of-the art technology in technical collaboration with Alstom, France, and Siemens, Germany, respectively. The boilers and auxiliaries would be manufactured by BHEL at its Tiruchiand Ranipet works.
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