Coal India to enter power production, in talks with NTPC to form JV

Coal India is in talks with NTPC to form a joint venture (JV) to come up with a 1,600 megawatt (2x800 Mw) pithead power plant at Sundergarh in Odisha

Addressing the problem of evacuating coal from remote locations to feed power plants, Coal India is embarking on power production itself, which it believes will help ease the high demand for thermal power in the country. This will mark Coal India’s maiden entry into thermal power generation.

Under this plan, it is in talks with NTPC to form a joint venture (JV) to come up with a 1,600 megawatt (2x800 Mw) pithead power plant at Sundergarh in Odisha. This hitherto remote region has been recently unlocked by connecting a 53-km long railway track to evacuate coal to feed other plants