Ramgarh thermal plant capacity being expanded

  • 29/03/2012

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

The capacity of the Ramgarh gas-based thermal power plant, situated 60 km away from Jaisalmer, is being expanded with the installation of two new units of the total volume of 160 megawatt in the project's third stage. The plant's present capacity is 110.5 MW. According to Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadan Nigam chairman and managing director P. N. Singhal here on Thursday, one of the units with the capacity of 110 MW will be gas-based, while the other (50 MW) will be steam-based. Work on their establishment is in progress, he said. He said the gas turbine, heat recovery steam generator, chimney, switchyard and cooling tower for the two units were being put in place at a fast pace. High-pressure and low-pressure boiler drums for the project have been installed at a height of 27 metres.