{"id":246561,"date":"2019-02-15T05:16:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T05:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=246561"},"modified":"2019-02-15T05:37:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T05:37:37","slug":"opgc-to-complete-1320-mw-odisha-expansion-project-worth-rs-11000-cr-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/opgc-to-complete-1320-mw-odisha-expansion-project-worth-rs-11000-cr-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"OPGC to complete 1,320-Mw Odisha expansion project worth Rs 11,000 cr soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-run thermal power producer Odisha Power Generation Corporation Ltd (OPGC) is on the verge of commissioning a 1,320-Mw (660&#215;2 units) project at Jharsuguda. OPGC is adding two 660-Mw supercritical units as part of its expansion at Ib Valley at a cost of about Rs 11,000 crore. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The process of commissioning of third and fourth units ( 2x 660 Mw) has already started. The commercial operations will start anytime soon. Hundred per cent of the power generated from these two units will go to Gridco,&#8221; said a senior OPGC official. He added that the expansion was taken up at an investment of Rs 11,000 crore. <\/p>\n<p>OPGC is a 51:49 joint venture company between the Odisha government and US-based energy major AES Ltd. The generator has been awarded the Manoharpur and Manoharpur dip side coal blocks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-run thermal power producer Odisha Power Generation Corporation Ltd (OPGC) is on the verge of commissioning a 1,320-Mw (660&#215;2 units) project at Jharsuguda. OPGC is adding two 660-Mw supercritical units as part of its expansion at Ib Valley at a cost of about Rs 11,000 crore. &#8220;The process of commissioning of third and fourth units ( 2x 660 Mw) has already started. The commercial operations will start anytime soon. Hundred per cent of the power generated from these two units will go to Gridco,&#8221; said a senior OPGC official. He added that the expansion was taken up at an investment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}