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NT Bureau
Chennai, July 28:

The tender process for constructing an additional 500 MW power plant with an estimated cost of Rs 2,176 crore at the North Chennai Thermal Power Station is in the final stages and if everything goes as per schedule, the plant would be commissioned by 2010 March, N Sangameswaran, Superintendent Engineer (Operations), Tamilnadu Electricity Board (TNEB) has said.         Speaking to the press persons who were taken to the plant on Thursday, the TNEB official said 'bids would be received till the end of August and after proper scrutiny, the process for the new plant would begin possibly by the end of this year.'         M Natarajan, Superintendent Engineer and incharge of civil projects, said, normally, a period of 48 months was prescribed for setting up such a unit. But for the proposed unit, 'the TNEB plans to complete it within 36 months'.

A view of the North Chennai Thermal Power Station.

        The North Chennai Thermal Power Station is located in a total area of about 2,500 acres at 25 kilometers north of the city at Ennore. It has three units 210 MW and one of its unit has been shut down for a routine maintenance work.

        The plant generates 630 MW of electricity per hour and nearly 60 per cent of Chennai city's power needs are being fulfilled by this plant.