Construction Industry News
NLC India announced that it had formed a joint venture with the UP government to establish a thermal power plant in Ghatampur near Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. The Ministry of Coal stated that the estimated cost of the project would be Rs 194.06 billion. The plant would have a capacity of 1,980 MW, divided into three units of 660 MW each. The first phase of the project was expected to begin generating electricity by the end of that year.
According to the ministry's statement, once the plant became fully operational, it would supply about 1,478.28 MW of power to Uttar Pradesh and the remaining 492.72 MW to Assam.
The ministry also mentioned that NLC, a Tamil Nadu-based company operating under its jurisdiction, operated three lignite mines with a total installed capacity of 30 million tons per year (MTPA) in Neyveli. In addition, the company operated a lignite mine in Barsingsar in Rajasthan, with an installed capacity of 2.1 MTPA, and an opencast coal mine in Talabira in Odisha, with an installed capacity of 20 MTPA. In addition, NLC operated four lignite-based thermal power plants in Neyveli, with a total capacity of 3,390 MW, along with a 250 MW lignite-based thermal power plant in Barsingsar, Rajasthan.
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