Neyveli, August 28 NLC Tamil Nadu Power Limited, (NTPL), a Joint Venture Company of NLC (89%) and TANGEDCO (11%), has established a 1000 MW (2 Units of 500 MW) Coal based Thermal Power Plant at Thoothukudi.
Unit II of this project has successfully completed 72 Hours of continuous operation at 04.00 Hours on 28-08-2015 starting from 04.00 Hours on 25-08-2015. The Unit will now be put into Commercial Operation.
Earlier, Unit-I of this TPS attained Commercial Operation Declaration (COD ) on 18-06-2015 . With this, power generation capacity of NLC has increased to 4240 MW ( including its subsidiaries) from 3740MW. As the 51 MW Wind Power Project ( Tirunelveli District ) and 10 MW Solar Power Project (Neyveli) are in the advanced stage of completion NLC will step up its Power Generation capacity to 4301MW soon.
