Vizag Steel Plant power station

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Vizag Steel Plant power station is an operating power station of at least 435-megawatts (MW) in Vizag Steel plant, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Plant name Location Coordinates (WGS 84)
Vizag Steel Plant power station Vizag Steel plant, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India 17.606547, 83.196713 (exact)

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Unit-level coordinates (WGS 84):

  • 1, Unit 3, Unit 4, Unit 5, Unit 6, Unit 7: 17.606547, 83.196713

Project Details

Table 2: Unit-level details

Unit name Status Fuel(s) Capacity (MW) Technology Start year
1 Operating[1] industrial by-product: blast furnace gas[1] 120[1] unknown 2015[2]
Unit 3 Operating coal: unknown 60 subcritical 1989
Unit 4 Operating coal: unknown 60 subcritical 1989
Unit 5 Operating coal: unknown 60 subcritical 1990
Unit 6 Operating coal: unknown 67.5 subcritical 1996
Unit 7 Operating coal: unknown 67.5 subcritical 2009

CHP is an abbreviation for Combined Heat and Power. It is a technology that produces electricity and thermal energy at high efficiencies. Coal units track this information in the Captive Use section when known.

Table 3: Unit-level ownership and operator details

Unit name Owner Parent
1 Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd [100%] Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd [100.0%]
Unit 3 Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd [100%] Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd [100.0%]
Unit 4 Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd [100%] Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd [100.0%]
Unit 5 Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd [100%] Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd [100.0%]
Unit 6 Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd [100%] Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd [100.0%]
Unit 7 Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd [100%] Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd [100.0%]

Project-level captive use details

  • Captive industry use (heat or power): power
  • Captive industry: Iron & Steel


Background

The power plant has three Turbo Generators of 60 MW each (180 MW total) capacity and two Turbo generators of 67.5 each (135MW total) for a total captive coal-fired power generation capacity of 315 MW. The units were commissioned from 1989 to 2009. In 2015, RINL added 120 MW of gas-fired capacity, fueled by blast furnace gas and coke oven gas.[3] The plant fuels the Vizag steel plant, which has a production capacity of 7.3 million tonnes per annum.[4][5]

Articles and Resources

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 (PDF) https://www.vizagsteel.com/code/press/pressrelfiles/635Captive%20Power%20Plant%202%20Release.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20160705094456/http://www.vizagsteel.com:80/code/press/pressrelfiles/902New%20Captive%20Power%20Plant%20of%20VSP.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 05 July 2016. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archive-date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. "RINL builds “120 MW Pollution free Captive Power Plant," RINL, 31.03.2015
  4. Infrastructure, Vizag Steel, Retrieved on: May 19, 2020
  5. Vizag Steel, Vizag Steel, Retrieved on: May 19, 2020

Additional data

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