GVK offers to triple Punjab thermal plant capacity
By IANSFriday, August 20, 2010
CHANDIGARH - The Hyderabad-based GVK group Friday said it could expand the capacity of its upcoming thermal power plant in Punjab three times by adding two more units.
GVK Chairman G.V.K. Reddy met Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal here and offered to expand the capacity of GVK Goindwal Sahib thermal plant by 1,320 MW (2×660 MW) in addition to existing capacity of 540 MW
(270×2).
Reddy offered to set up two units of 660 MW each with super critical technology to produce a total of 1,860 MW.
He said the company would be able to install the new units at the plant site and that water availability, evacuation and rail connectivity were sufficient to meet the logistic demand of the expanded plant.
Reddy also informed Badal that work on Goindwal power project was ahead of schedule. He said the GVK group was confident that it would start generating power from this plant much ahead of the scheduled date of December 2011.
