Yadadri Thermal Power Plant or Yadadri TPS is an upcoming 4000

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, supercritical thermal power project coming up at Dameracherla,

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. The project is second largest in

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, at a cost of ₹25,099 crores (US$3.8 billion) and is expected to complete by October 2021 in a phased manner. The state-owned Telangana State Power Generation Corporation Limited (

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) is building the 5 x 800

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thermal power station, built on 2800 acres near Veerlapalem Village in Nalgonda District, the second mega project announced by the Telangana government after

Bhadradri Thermal Power Plant Bhadradri Thermal Power Station is a proposed power plant project located near Edulla Bayyaram at Manuguru in the Indian state of Telangana. History Chief Minister of Telangana Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao laid down foundation stone for this ...

History

Chief Minister of Telangana,

K. Chandrashekar Rao Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao (born 17 February 1954), often referred to by his initials KCR, is an Indian politician serving as the first and current Chief Minister of Telangana since 2 June 2014. He is the founder and leader of the Bharat Ra ...

laid the foundation stone for the project on 8 June 2015 at Veerlapalem village, Dhamacherla mandal. The name was rechristened from Damaracharla Thermal Power Plant as Yadadri.

The Project

The BHEL order, the largest ever in India for the company, includes design, supply, erection and commissioning of project on EPC basis. The project completion is executed on fast track basis within 36 months for first two units and balance three units in 48 months from October 2017. This is the biggest project executed by

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. Recently, joined Team Uppur including Best Engineers like: Anand Kumar, Sr Engineer; Naveen Kumar, Dy Manager; Rakesh Roushan, Manager; Ashok Kumar, Manager have speeded up the Project Progress. Already available Classy Engineers like Pranjal Jain, Sr Engineer & Deepak Kumar Mandal, Sr Engineer are contributing towards Site Progress. After successful completion of their previous Projects, the team is ready with new zeal to complete Yadadri TPP also. With joining of Team Uppur Engineers at Yadadri, already working manpower at Site is feeling highly motivated to complete this project also.

Clearances

The project has been accorded environmental clearance by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC)in June 2017 and yet to get water allocation from Krishna river. MoEF granted Environment clearance to this thermal power plant on June 29, 2017. LOI issued to BHEL with zero date 17 October 2017. The revised environment norms at the center, the 4000 MW project will cost Telangana an additional ₹3100 crore. The new environment norms mandate setting-up of flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) devices.

Capacity

The planned capacity of the thermal power plant is 4000 MW (5 x 800 MW)

References

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