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Friday, Feb 04, 2005
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Announcements NTPC may expand generation capacity at Farakka plant Badal Sanyal
Kolkata , Feb. 3 National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) is considering afresh plans to expand the generation capacity of its Farakka super thermal power plant from 1,600 MW to 2,100 MW. Indicating this, an NTPC source said that Farakka's expansion was considered economically viable because of the plant's available infrastructure, in addition to the growing demand for power from various State electricity boards. It is felt that the expansion plan will be sustainable if a portion of the total coal requirement is met by imported low-ash non-coking coal for blending purposes. The source said that Coal India had to increase production to meet the needs of NTPC plants in the eastern region. However, CIL was yet to set up new mines with mechanised coal handling facilities to ensure uninterrupted supplies of the required quantity of coal to NTPC's power stations in the region. Considering all this, the corporation feels the need for entering into captive coal mining activities. The other option is import of coal. Mines allotted: Meanwhile, the Union Ministry of Coal has allotted a few virgin coal blocks in the North Karanpura coalfields of Jharkhand to NTPC for developing the mines for captive consumption. These mines will be developed to take care of NTPC's two greenfield thermal power projects, each with a rated capacity of 2,000 MW. The two projects are being set up at Barh in Bihar and North Karanpura in Jharkhand. The source said that NTPC's 840-MW Kahalgaon super thermal power plant in Bihar is operating with a meagre coal stock, while the corporation's 2,500-MW capacity Talcher super thermal power plant is maintaining a "negative" stock. The corporation has decided to import low-ash non-coking coal for Talcher plant, although Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd, a CIL subsidiary, is committed to meeting Talcher's entire coal requirement. The source said that NTPC was keen on raising generation capacity in the eastern region by way of expanding the capacity of its thermal plants and also taking up hydro-electric and gas-based projects. In fact, NTPC Hydro Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NTPC, has been allowed to take up a 90-MW capacity hydro electricity project in Darjeeling district of West Bengal. This subsidiary is negotiating with the Arunachal Pradesh Government for setting up a hydel project in that State.
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