DVC to add 1500 MW capacity

Damodar Valley Corporation will add approximately 1,500 Mw thermal power capacity over its coal fired generation capacity of 3,070 Mw.

The corporation has 144 Mw hydro-electric capacity. All the upcoming capacities were designated to supply to Delhi during the Commonwealth Games in October 2010.
One unit of 500 Mw each at the greenfield power plants at Durgapur in West Bengal and Kodarma in Jharkhand are expected to be operational at full load by March 2011.

Both plants are scheduled to be fully operational by end 2012. According to sources, the first unit of 500 Mw at Kodarma is a thermal power station already put in trial generation mode.

Lighting of the boiler at the first unit of 500 Mw at Durgapur Steel TPS is expected to be over in the next two weeks. Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd is project contractor for both the plants.

The second 500 Mw unit at the second phase of the Mejia TPS in Bankura district of West Bengal is expected to be fully operational either by the end of this month or early February.

DVC had 1,340 Mw thermal power capacity under the first phase. In the second phase, the corporation is adding two units of 500 Mw. The first unit of the second phase expansion became operational in 2010.