The Central Electricity Authority has ranked STPS first among the top 25 thermal power plants in the country.
Hyderabad: The Singareni Thermal Power Station (STPS), which was commissioned in August 2016, has risen quickly to the top of the country’s thermal power plants.
The STPS, which was ranked first in the Central Electricity Authority’s (CEA) list of the top 25 thermal power plants in the country with the highest PLF of 91.15 percent, has achieved the highest PLF among thermal power plants managed by state governments for all six years, except during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In fact, since last November, the STPS has held the top position in the country by registering the highest PLF among the more than 250 thermal centres run by all government and private organisations.
It is noteworthy that it has surpassed the country’s leading public and private power companies, including NTPC, Adani, Tata, Reliance, Jindal, and others, to take the top spot.
According to the Central Electricity Authority’s report, the STPS ranked first with 91.15 PLF and 7219 million units of electricity generation.
NTPC’s Korbha plant in Chhattisgarh State came in second, followed by NTPC’s Singrauli plant in Uttar Pradesh, Vindhyachal plant in Madhya Pradesh, Bakreshwar plant in West Bengal, and Rihand plant in Gujarat (Uttar Pradesh).
Providing electricity for the advancement of the state
According to officials, the Singareni Thermal Power Station has been effectively meeting the electricity needs of the newly formed State of Telangana and participating in the State’s progress.
So far, the plant has supplied 52,328 million units of electricity to the grid, accounting for 12% of Telangana’s total electricity consumption. Singareni also provided more than Rs.400 crore in profit to Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) on an annual basis.
To meet the State’s growing electricity needs, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has ordered the construction of another 800 MW plant within the STPS grounds.
