| Sunday February 14, 02:43 AM | |
Andhra Pradesh will put in all efforts to achieve
additional power generation of 15,945 mw by taking up
17 new power projects in the next four to five years.
This will enable the state to meet the growing power
demand in all sectors such as agriculture, industry and
domestic, said chief minister of state K Rosaiah.
According to a statement, on Saturday, the chief minister
will lay foundation stone for two projects which includes
the 600-mw Singareni thermal power plant at Pegadapalli village
in Adilabad district and the first phase of 700 mw out of 2,100 mw
gas-based power project promoted by APGENCO at
Thimmapur Mandal in Karimnagar.
While the phase I of the Karimnagar project will be
operationalised by July 2013, the thermal project at
Pegadapalli is expected to be completed by June 2013.
Both the projects, the chief minister said, will spur economic
growth and help setting up other industries. Industrialisation
of the area will also provide vast employment opportunities in the region.
Of the 17 new power projects planned in the next 4-5 years,
10 projects aggregating to 4,063 mw are under construction
and seven projects totalling 11,282 mw are under development
stage. With these projects, APGENCO is all poised to
add 4,110 mw thermal and 653 mw of Hydel capacity by next three years.
The chief minister also said fly ash generated in the power projects can
be used by the cement industries to enhance their production capacities
and it can also be used to set up fly ash based brick units in the local area.
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