Reliance Power commissions 300 MW unit of Rosa power plant

Reliance Power has commissioned one of the four 300MW-capacity units of a thermal power plant on Monday.

The second 300 MW-unit is expected to be commissioned by the end of January to be followed by the other two 300 MW-units by March 2012. The 1,200-MW plant is located at Rosa, about 175 km from Lucknow, the capital of UP.

According to Reliance Power chief executive officer JP Chalasani, March 2012 would usher in a new era in the history of Reliance Power as the company expected to simultaneously commission two other power projects – a 600 MW plant in Nagpur and a 1,300-MW plant at Sasan in Madhya Pradesh.

Chalsani said it was a matter for pride for the company to have moved well ahead of its schedule and instead of April 2010, the company had succeeded in commissioning the plant on Monday, which happens to be the 77th birth anniversary of company founder Dhirubhai Ambani.

He said that after taking over the project in 2007, the company but it on the fast track, acquiring the land expeditiously, signing the PPA, obtaining all statutory and regulatory clearances and approvals and signed the coal supply and transportation agreements.

He added that once the once the entire plant was commissioned, it would enable Reliance to make an annual contribution of 9,000 million units to the state's generating capacity and light up as many as four million homes, besides helping in reducing load-shedding by at least 25 percent.
The project is expected to employ around 300 people on a permanent basis.