NNTPP's first unit successfully undergoes crucial test

State-owned NLC India Sunday said it has achieved a critical milestone towards commissioning of 1,000 MW Neyveli New Thermal Power Project (NNTPP) by successfully conducting the boiler light-up test for the first unit with secondary fuel. In a filing to the BSE, the company said that this is the first 500 MW lignite-fired power plant in the country which can generate 10,00,000 units of power in one hour. The power project will replace the existing more than five decades old TPS-I (600 MW) at Neyveli, it said.

"NLC India Limited has achieved a critical milestone towards commissioning its 1,000 MW (2X500 MW) of Neyveli New Thermal Power Project (NNTPP) by successfully conducting the boiler light-up test for the First unit with secondary fuel on December 28, 2018 at Neyveli," the company said. The time for boiler hydro test and light up was scheduled for 6 months, but with the vigorous efforts, Unit-I boiler hydro test was completed on December 22, 2018 and boiler light up successfully conducted on Friday - within a span of 4 months against target of 6 months which itself is a big mile tone. NLC India CMD Rakesh Kumar lighted up the boiler in the presence of functional directors Thangapandian, R Vikraman, Prabhakar Chowki and senior officials and executives of NNTPP.