NTPC to start ops at 1,600 Mw coal-based power plant in Odisha by 2019

TTPS was taken over by NTPC Ltd from Odisha State Electricity Board in 1995

NTPC Ltd plans to start commercial operations of its Rs 125 billion proposed 1600 Mw (2x800) supercritical coal-based power plant at Darlipalli in Odisha's Sundergarh by September 2019.

"One unit of 800 Mw will come by December in the next fiscal but the commercial operations 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 will get 50 per cent power of the total capacity.

The power major will source coal from its Dulanga coal