Singareni thermal plant achieves highest PLF in country
The Hindu
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Singareni Thermal Power Plant (STPP), a unit of Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL), has achieved the highest plant load factor (PLF) for all thermal power stations in the country in the first three quarters of 2021-22, by the end of December.
It clocked 87.18% PLF in the first nine months of the current fiscal. Incidentally, the thermal power stations of Telangana State Power Generation Corporation (TSGenco) stood second at national level with a PLF of 73.98%.
Quoting the rankings for thermal power stations issued by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), officials of SCCL stated that West Bengal Power Development Corporation stood third with 70.29% PLF followed by Chhattisgarh Power Generation Corporation with 68.1%, Odisha Power Generation Corporation with 63.95% and Andhra Pradesh Genco with 58.83%.