NTPC commissions 500-Mw Simhadri unit

The country’s largest power producer, NTPC Limited, stated that it has commissioned the fourth 500-Mw unit of its Simhadri Super Thermal Power Project on Friday.

With this unit, the total installed operational capacity of NTPC- Simhadri has now gone up to 2,000 Mw. The Simhadri project is situated at Parawada near Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.

Power generated from Simhadri Stage-II will be supplied to the southern states of Andhra Pradesh (384.4 Mw), Karnataka (176 Mw), Kerala (80 Mw), Tamil Nadu (197 Mw) and Puducherry (10 Mw), while 150 Mw is unallocated.

On the other hand, NTPC stated in a press release that the entire 1,000-Mw power generated from Simhadri Stage-I (2 x 500 Mw) 1000 MW is supplied to Andhra Pradesh.

According to NTPC, Simhadri is its first coastal-based, coal-fired thermal power project. The biggest sea water intake well in India has been installed inside the Bay of Bengal to draw water for condenser-cooling and ash disposal. Natural draft cooling towers of (165 M) height each are the biggest in Asia and the sixth biggest in the world.