Policy on Ultra Mega Power Projects
The Ministry of Power had put up a proposal to Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP) for stipulating a condition for sourcing main plant equipment with a condition of phased domestic manufacturing (PMP) for future UMPPs.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Power Shri K.C.Venugopal in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today on the Government proposal to modify its policy on UMPPs to make domestic sourcing of equipment mandatory. He said the EGoM has set up a committee under the Chairmanship of Member (Industry), Planning Commission for looking into the details and work out the modalities in this regard. The Minister added that the final decision in regard to modifying the policies on UMPPs is contingent upon further deliberation and discussion by the Committee with all the stakeholders.
Shri Venugopal said, in view of large capacity addition planned and initiatives taken for enhancing indigenous manufacturing capacity for supercritical units in the country, BHEL have taken up capacity augmentation programme and envisages to increase their manufacturing capacity to 20,000 MW (13500 MW for large thermal power units). In addition, one Joint Venture has been set up by L&T for manufacturing of supercritical boilers and another Joint Venture for manufacturing of supercritical turbine generators in the country.
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