Three NTPC units to be renovated.

In the wake of Central Electricity Authority (CEA) instructions to replace old units with the super-critical units to conserve natural resources such as coal, water, land and also check pollution, the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Ramagundam has decided to take up renovation and modernisation (R&M) of its 3 x 200 MWs Stage-I units very soon.

These units which started functioning three decades ago will be renovated and modernised at a cost of ₹ 382 crore in the next three years. These boilers of these three units would be replaced along with turbines to improve its efficiency in power generation. After renovation, the units would consume less coal and also emit less pollution.

NTPC Ramagundam Executive Director Dilip Kumar Dubey said that they had chalked out strategies for the R&M of all three old units by shutting down each unit for a period of 105 days to take up renovation. After the completion of the R&M, each unit would generate power at a capacity of 210 MWs against its original 200 MWs, he added.

THE HINDU