Reliance Power starts Sasan unit; plans 660 MW next month
09 Nov 2013
Reliance Power, an arm of the Anil Ambani group of companies, on Friday started another boiler at its Sasan power plant in Madhya Pradesh, and plans to switch on its second 660 MW unit next month.
The second unit at the coal-fired plant will be tested this month and will become operational next month, the company said in a statement from Delhi.
The Sasan project is the first of three 4,000 MW plants that Reliance Power is building under the country's ultra-mega power plant (UMPP) scheme to help overcome the country's perennial power shortage.
The first 660 MW unit at Sasan was commissioned in March.
"Boiler light-up has been achieved for the second 660 MW unit at the Sasan UMPP," the company said.
Coal production has started from the 20 million tonne per annum capacity Moher and Moher-Amlohri mines allotted to the power project, according to the statement.
Reliance Power is setting up UMPPs at Krishnapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and Tilaiya in Jharkhand. Two 600 MW units of the company's Rosa thermal power project are operational.