As per report Tamilnadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami has announced the setting up of two new gas-based thermal plants in Chennai. Meanwhile the plants, intended to meet the ever-growing power needs in the state, will be created at a cost of Rs 5,000 crore and each plant would be 730 MW in capacity. Reportedly the Tamilnadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited (TANGEDCO) has been tasked with setting up the plants in the northern part of the city.

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Meanwhile the newly announced thermal plants will be powered by natural gas, a departure from the norm since most thermal units belonging to the state are coal-based. Furthermore the plants will be located at the premises of the old GMR power plant in Basin Bridge area, north Chennai. Perhaps the previously functioning GMR units, which were decommissioned last year, were naphtha-based, a liquid hydrocarbon mixture.



Moreover one senior TANGEDCO official told the newspaper, "We will prepare a detailed project report and seek loan from power finance companies before floating tenders. It will take at least five years for the units to generate power. Accordingly new equipment will be established at a cost of Rs 3,000 crore to prevent releasing of effluent from five thermal power stations in open air as per a Supreme Court verdict. New substations, each of 230 MW capacity, will be set up at Vembakkam in Tiruvannamalai district, Nallur in Namakkal district and Nanguneri in tirunelveli district at a total cost of Rs 510 crore.


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