CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -As a first step in power sector, HNPCL is setting up a 1, 040 MW coal based merchant power plant at Vizag in the district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Detailed explanation-2: -Detailed Solution. Hussain Sagar Thermal Power Station is the historic thermal power plant that was located in Hyderabad, Telangana on the banks of Hussain Sagar. It was India’s first thermal power station, opened in 1920 by the erstwhile seventh Nizam of Hyderabad.

Detailed explanation-3: -Vindhyachal Thermal Power Station, Madhya Pradesh. The Vindhyachal Thermal Power Station in the Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh, with an installed capacity of 4, 760MW, is currently the biggest thermal power plant in India. It is a coal-based power plant owned and operated by NTPC.

Detailed explanation-4: -The two units will be part of the Chhabra Thermal Power Project. They will be set up at a cost of Rs 9, 606.06 crore. Besides, expanding the Kalisindh Thermal Power Project, a unit of 800 MW will also be set up based on ultra-supercritical technology at a cost of Rs 6054.58 crore.