Power: NPCIL hopes to exceed 19 bn units target

State-run Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited hopes to exceed its production target of 19 billion units during this fiscal as it has started using imported fuel from the France-based company Areva.

NPCIL executive director (corporate planning) S Thakur said fuel supply to its plants is now much better compared to the situation 2-3 years ago.

He said so far NPCIL is exceeding the target and 'we are hopeful that we will cross the 19 billion units target' for the current financial year.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the India Electricity 2009 summit here, Thakur said the company had begun generating power from the second unit of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station using imported fuel from Areva.

"We have started production at our Rajasthan plant using imported fuel from Areva. The condition of fuel supply is now much better compared to the situation 2-3 years ago," Thakur said.

The second unit of RAPS was operationalised on September 1 and it is currently producing 174 megawatt against a total capacity of 220 megawatt, he added.

The operationalisation of the second unit of RAPS came almost a year after the Indo-US civil nuclear agreement.