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Union Minister for Coal & Mines and elder BJP person G. Kishan Reddy has written to Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, urging the State authorities to participate into a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with NTPC for the upcoming 3x800 MW (2400 MW) thermal powerfulness task projected successful Phase-II astatine Ramagundam.
In his nationalist missive connected Monday, helium pointed retired that the State’s powerfulness request touched an all-time precocious of 18,139 MW connected March 3, 2026, and that the request is expected to emergence importantly successful the coming years. Referring to Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka’s caller statement, Mr. Kishan Reddy said Telangana would necessitate an further 5,000–6,000 MW of thermal capableness to support grid stableness and could spot powerfulness request scope 1 lakh megawatts by 2047.
He urged the Chief Minister to personally intervene and facilitate a PPA betwixt the Telangana authorities and NTPC for the Phase-II 2400 MW project, stating that specified practice would importantly fortify Telangana’s vigor information and service the semipermanent interests of the public.
Union Minister for Coal & Mines G. Kishan Reddy urged the Chief Minister to personally intervene and facilitate a PPA betwixt the Telangana authorities and NTPC for the Phase-II 2400 MW project. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
The Secunderabad MP recalled that the archetypal signifier of the NTPC Ramagundam task — comprising 2×800 MW (1600 MW) and built with precocious ultra supercritical exertion astatine a outgo of astir ₹12,000 crore — was inaugurated and dedicated to the federation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi successful 2023. He noted that 85% of the powerfulness generated from some Phase-I and Phase-II is earmarked exclusively for Telangana.
Highlighting NTPC’s proven expertise successful delivering low-cost, high-efficiency thermal powerfulness done precocious technologies, Mr. Kishan Reddy reminded the Chief Minister of his earlier praise for the Ramagundam Phase-I task during Assembly discussions.
He said that if NTPC is granted autonomy to root ember for the afloat 5×800 MW project, it is prepared to proviso high-quality energy astatine competitory rates, benefiting some the State authorities and the radical of Telangana. The BJP person besides noted that respective confederate States are already entering into PPAs with NTPC owed to the corporation’s quality to make reliable powerfulness astatine little costs.
