Moving ahead with its plans to execute nine 800 MW supercritical units via the bulk-tendering route, NTPC has issued the NIT needed for the procurement of associated equipment. According to sources, the power major intends to award the project by November this year.
- It may be mentioned here that the tendering process has witnessed inordinate delays so far. The issue of NIT was earlier deferred to June 2010. Concurrence from the Cabinet Committee of Infrastructure (CCI) is understood to be the cause of the delay.
- Notably, the CCI, on August 27, 2009, approved the induction of supercritical technology, through bulk ordering, by giving its assent to an intial order for 11 units, of 660 MW, each, totaling to 7,260 MW, from NTPC, with regards to its upcoming projects, as well as on behalf of its joint venture companies and the state-run, Damodar Valley Corporation Limited.
- For the second phase of bulk tendering, NTPC has identified four of its projects, namely the 3x800 MW Kudgi-I super thermal power project (STPP) in Karnataka, the 2x800 MW Darlipali-I integrated power project and 2x800 MW Gajmara STPP in Orissa and the 2x800 MW Lara-I STPP in Chhattisgarh.
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