If everything falls in place DVC, Bokaro Thermal power plant will start contributing 500 MW power to the country in the next few months.
Though DVC chairman, Andrew WK langstieh and chief engineer & project head P Kumar remained non-committal to announce any particular date in this regard, they were hopeful of power generation of 500MW unit within the next five or six months.
As per official information, the new unit of 500 MW of DVC, Bokaro Thermal was synchronised with oil late in the night on March 31 in the presence of top DVC officials, including CE and project head P Kumar, CE of BTPS B, JP Singh and BHEl officials.
This synchronisation of unit of 500MW was achieved few months late. The DVC expects to begin commercial operation of the unit by October.
The management of BTPS said here on Friday that the unit of 500 MW of the station would be come in operational stage in between October and November.
According to information, power generation of unit had been synchronised with transmission only 10 minutes and the load was reached up to 40 MW.
However, all test are being done before its lit up for generation, though the additional power may be help meet some gap of power supply in eastern zone of the country, said CE & project head P Kumar.
According to DVC sources, all higher officials of DVC, Bokaro Thermal along with all engineers and operational staff, including electrical and mechanical, were present at the time of synchronisation here on Tuesday night .
Chief engineer & project head P Kumar said that the progress of the 500MW extension project at BTPS is on the fast lane.
The DVC decision to set up a power plant of 500 MW power generation capacity in BTPS has ignited hope for better power scenario here.