VSP's 120-Mw captive plant starts ops

The captive plant has been designed to utilise 100 per cent non-coal fuels like blast furnace gas

Air insulated substation (AIS) installed by Alstom
VDS Rama Raju
Last Updated : Jul 30 2015 | 9:48 PM IST
Vizag Steel Plant has announced power generation from its 120-Mw new power plant. The captive plant has been designed to utilise 100 per cent non-coal fuels like blast furnace gas.

The power plant, consisting of two boilers supplied by Thermax and the turbo generator supplied by Siemens, involved an expenditure of Rs 677 crore. The plant would help step up the captive power generation at the steel plant, VSP stated in a release.
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First Published: Jul 30 2015 | 8:41 PM IST

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