NEEPCO to set up 52MW plant in Tripura

The state-owned North Eastern Electric Power Corp would set up a 52 MW power plant in western Tripura. The US$65 million plant would be run by water and the heat emitted from its existing 84 MW thermal power project.

 
The proposed combined cycle extension power plant is to be commissioned at Ramchandranagar.

 

'The new power plant will be commissioned within 30 months from the starting of the work,' NEEPCO chairman and managing director I.P. Barooah told reporters.

 

'The existing 84 MW natural gas-based Ramchandranagar power project, commissioned in 1997, has been discharging on an average 420 degrees Celsius heat following the burning of the gas. The emitted heat involving water will run additional turbines to generate electricity,' he said.