About Neyveli Thermal Power Station in NLC township, Neyveli

Neyveli Thermal Power Station is a set of power plant situated near lignite mines of Neyveli. It consists of two distinct units (Neyveli Thermal Power Station I and Neyveli Thermal Power Station II) capable of producing 1020 MW and 1,970 MW respectively including their expansion units. It is operated by NLC. The total installed capacity of this station is 2990 MW as of December 2014.Neyveli Thermal Power Station IThe Neyveli Thermal Power Station I has configuration of 600 MW . All these units were commissioned between May 1962 and September 1970. The plant is equipped with boilers from the Taganrog Metallurgical Plant, turbines from LMZ and generators from Electrosila, imported from the Soviet Union under Indo-Soviet assistance programme. It was planned that the Neyveli Thermal Power Station I will be decommissioned between 2011 and 2014; however, in 2011 the period of operations was extended for five years. On May 20, 2014 a High Pressure steam heater, one of the equipments of turbine package burst in a unit of Thermal Power Station I, killed one engineer and injured 5 others. Two out of the 5 died later in hospital unable to survive the wound. Incidentally, it was Neyveli Lignite Corporation's 58th Raising Day.Two units of 210 MW capacity each were also added under Stage I expansion which are under commercial operation.

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