By Bizodisha Bureau, Bhubaneswar, February 24, 2018: NTPC Ltd – India’s largest power utility, is all set to begin commercial operations of its Rs 125 billion proposed 1600 Mw (2×800) supercritical coal-based power plant at Darlipalli in Sundergarh by September next year.

NTPC has a total installed capacity of 51,383 MW and aims to become a 130 GW company by 2032. Established in 1975, NTPC aims to be the world’s largest and best power major.

“One unit of 800 Mw will come by December in the next fiscal but the commercial operation is slated to kick-off by March 2019. By September 2019, the second unit of similar capacity is projected to start “, Ram Chandra Patnaik, general manager, Darlipali Super Thermal Power project of NTPC Ltd told media persons.

Odisha’s share from this plant is half of the total capacity.

The power major will source coal from its Dulanga coal mine. For further requirements, it will source from Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL), a 100 per cent subsidiary of the Coal India Limited.

The beneficiary states – Odisha (800 Mw), West Bengal (423 Mw), Jharkhand (142 Mw), Sikkim (21 Mw) and Bihar (215 Mw) have already signed the power purchase agreement with all the states are already in place, Patnaik added.

NTPC plans to phase out its 460 Mw plant of Talcher Thermal Power Station, which it took over from Odisha State Electricity Board in 1995 and build a 1320 Mw (2x660Mw) supercritical power plant at TTPS after the phasing out of the 50-year old plant, according to R K Shrivastava, regional executive director of Eastern Region-II.

“The expansion will come up in the same area. The townships will be reconstructed and modified and the horizontal ones will convert to vertical ones”, he added.