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The Coal Ministry has approved transfer of existing coal linkage of the Panipat Thermal Power Station to a new supercritical plant which will be set up at the same location.
“The decision has been taken on the basis of recommendations of the Standing Linkage Committee (Long Term) which considered the request of the Haryana Government,” an official statement said.
The Government had after taking over formulated the policy for automatic transfer of coal linkage in cases of scrapping of old thermal plants and replacing them with supercritical plants.
Under this policy, linkage granted to the old plant shall be automatically transferred to the new plant of nearest supercritical capacity. If the capacity of the new plant is higher than the old plant, additional coal may be accorded priority subject to the availability of coal on the best effort basis from Coal India Limited (CIL).
Under this dispensation, inefficient and uneconomical units 1 to 4 (each of capacity 110 MW) at Panipat TPS shall be replaced by setting up more efficient super critical units of 660/800 MW capacity at the available land within the same premises by way of simultaneous phasing out units 1 to 4 during the next 4 to 5 years.
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