The power equipment manufacturing plant of the NTPC-BHEL joint venture, NTPC-BHEL Power Projects Private Ltd (NBPPL), will be set up at Mannavaram in Andhra Pradesh and entail an investment of Rs 6,000 crore.
The plant, which is slated to be fully operational by 2014, will have an annual capacity to manufacture up to 5,000 Mw of equipment. It is billed as the country’s first integrated plant making turbines, generators and boilers at one place.
“The integrated plant, which will have capacity to manufacture up to 5,000 Mw of power equipment annually, will come up at Mannavaram in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, about 120 km from Chennai,” NBPPL Chairman and Managing Director C P Singh said in a statement today. “This will be the first integrated plant in the country to manufacture turbines, generators and boilers under one roof,” Singh added.
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