JSW to set up 10 power plants in Barmer

JSW Energy will set up 10 power plants with a capacity of 1,350 mega watt (Mw) in all, in Rajasthan's Barmer district.     

The project is being implemented by Raj WestPower, a 100 per cent subsidiary of JSW Energy, and would be completed in two phases.     

"In the first phase, the capacity will be 1,080 Mw comprising 8 units of 135 Mw each, and in the second phase, the capacity will be 270 MWs comprising of 2 units of 135 Mw each," Krishna Deshika, Jt. Group CFO told reporters here.     

"We expect to commission the entire 1,080 Mw of first phase by October 2010, and the entire 270 Mw of second phase by January 2013," he said, adding, that the 1,080 Mw power plant will use lignite as fuel.     

"The company has recently commissioned 600 Mw power plants in Vijaynagar in Karnataka...Total power generation of the company is expected to go up to 3140 Mw by April 2011 and 11,390 Mw by September 2015."