PATNA: Bihar will get 559 MW of additional thermal power as the third and final unit, having an installed capacity of 660 MW, of the Nabinagar Power Generating Company (NPGC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC), was commissioned at Nabinagar in Aurangabad district on Sunday, said power officials.
This will take Bihar’s power share from NTPC power plants to 5,921 MW against the present allocation of 5,362 MW.
The NPGC unit successfully completed its 72 hours full-load trial run in the wee hours on Sunday. This means that the unit is ready for commercial generation and would add electricity up to 660MW to beneficiary states such as Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Sikkim. With this total generation capacity of NPGC would be raised to 1980 MW from 1320 MW at present with a total expenditure of ₹19,412 crore.
