{"id":384450,"date":"2020-11-17T11:26:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T05:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=384450"},"modified":"2020-11-17T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T05:56:12","slug":"ups-first-supercritical-power-plant-in-meja-to-be-fully-operational-by-december-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ups-first-supercritical-power-plant-in-meja-to-be-fully-operational-by-december-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"UP&#8217;s first supercritical power plant in Meja to be fully operational by December: CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Meja Thermal Power Plant, Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s first supercritical power plant, will be fully operational by December, MUNPL chief executive officer (CEO) Asim Kumar Samanta said.<br \/>\nMeja Urja Nigam Pvt Ltd (MUNPL) is a 50:50 joint venture (JV) of state-owned NTPC Ltd and Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd (UPRVUNL).<br \/>\nThe JV was incorporated in 2008 to set up a 1,320-megawatt (with 2X660 MW units) coal-based Meja Thermal Power Plant at Meja, about 45 km from the state&#8217;s Prayagraj district.<br \/>\n&#8220;Unit -I of the supercritical plant has already been commissioned with effect from April 30, 2019. Unit-II is ready for declaration of commercial operation. It will be made operational by next month,&#8221; Samanta told PTI.<br \/>\nFollowing the commercial operation of Unit-II, the plant will be fully operational, he said.<br \/>\nThe CEO said the plant is well connected by road to Prayagraj.<br \/>\nIt has its own 28-km freight corridor that helps in bringing critical materials, such as coal, to plant by rail. The plant is also connected to river Ganga at Bijora village, through a network of about 30 km pipeline, to transport water for industrial purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Meja Thermal Power Plant, Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s first supercritical power plant, will be fully operational by December, MUNPL chief executive officer (CEO) Asim Kumar Samanta said. Meja Urja Nigam Pvt Ltd (MUNPL) is a 50:50 joint venture (JV) of state-owned NTPC Ltd and Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd (UPRVUNL). The JV was incorporated in 2008 to set up a 1,320-megawatt (with 2X660 MW units) coal-based Meja Thermal Power Plant at Meja, about 45 km from the state&#8217;s Prayagraj district. &#8220;Unit -I of the supercritical plant has already been commissioned with effect from April 30, 2019. Unit-II [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384450","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}