Last year, the PLF of the unit was only 88.5 per cent as against 92 per cent in 2006-07, owing to turbines overhaul works, R Venkateswaran, general manager, Simhadri Power Plant, said.
Due to drop in PLF, power production reduced to 7,779.66 million units in 2007-08 from 8,026 million units in the preceding year, he told the media.
NTPC is adding another 1,000 Mw at the Simhadri plant and the stage-II units will start production from 2011-12. Power purchase agreements for the Simhadri stage-II have been signed with discoms of Andhra Pradesh, escoms of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry electricity boards. Over 30 per cent of the Stage-II production would be dedicated to Andhra Pradesh, he stated.
The Simhadri power station utilised 70.54 per cent of ash produced during the year 2007-08. The plant has been generation about 2 million tonnes of ash annually, he added.
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