Rajpura: The commercial operations of first 700 MW unit of the 1400 MW supercritical thermal power plant at Rajpura in Punjab has begin, said Engineering major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) said on Monday.
The company said in a statement, “L&T Power has successfully completed commissioning and testing of the first unit of its 2×700 MW supercritical thermal power plant of Nabha Power on January 31.”
Shailendra Roy, member of L&T Board said, “We have demonstrated our capability as a leading power plant engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) player, with the successful commissioning of the first unit of the Rajpura plant.”
He said that the commercial operations of the plant are likely to augment Punjab’s generation capacity significantly, making the state power surplus, and enabling it to export power to the national grid.
The release said that the plant was constructed on a turnkey basis by L&T Power, with more than 90 per cent of the equipment sourced from group companies of L&T.
The release stated that the supercritical boiler and turbine were manufactured by L&T’s joint venture companies with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) located at Hazira, Gujarat.
Bureau Report
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