Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that in the 13th five-year-plan, only super critical technology-based power plants would be set up in India.
The union government had been taking a number of initiatives to promote the use of super critical technology, Singh said after dedicating Sipat power plant and laying the foundation stone for Lara power project in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh.
While the three of the five units in the Sipat power station are based on super critical technology, the five units of 800-Mw in Lara would be based on the same technology. “The ministry of power had started the work on bulk tendering for setting up super critical units,” Singh said.
He added that the government had set up a condition that super critical units should be assembled in India and the companies qualifying in the tender should hand over the entire technology to the Indian company.
The Prime Minister said that emphasis should be given to protect the environment and make the project cost efficient also. “The government had taken initiative to make easy the manufacturing of component used in the super critical units,” he said, adding that many companies across the world had expressed interest to join hands with the Indian companies to manufacture components for the super critical units.
Singh said now more investment had been coming in the field of research and development sector of power production. “I am happy that NTPC, BHEL and Indira Gandhi Centre for Nuclear Research had been jointly working for the development of advanced ultra super critical technology,” he added.
This would enable them to set up better power plants in future, Singh said.
