AUSC TECHNOLOGY
Budget 2024: Hi-tech thermal plants may get Rs 6,000 cr viability support
Budget 2024: The Union budget for 2024-25 is expected to include a support scheme for setting up 800 MW coal-based power plants using Advanced Ultra Supercritical (AUSC) technology. The finance ministry is evaluating a proposal for ₹6,000 crore viability gap funding (VGF) and a ₹3,500 crore payment security mechanism for electric buses. The project, based on indigenous technology developed by a consortium of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, and NTPC, is expected to cost upwards of ₹15,000 crore at completion.
Funds tie-up for demonstrative AUSC thermal power project by end of March: R K Singh
AUSC technology is designed to help power plants burn less coal for electricity production while reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The sponsoring agency for the Research and Development (R&D) phase of the AUSC technology is the Department of Heavy Industries (DHI).
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India to have its first coal-fired AUSC plant by 2017
India's first 800 MW coal-fired AUSC power plant will be operational by 2017 which will help reduce operational costs and emit less carbon dioxide than existing similar units.
