Singareni Collieries Company Ltd has plans to expand its power generation capacity from the present 1,500 megawatt to 4,050 MW in the years to come.
IT has plans to establish 250 MW floating solar power plant on Lower Manair Dam (LMD) waters, add another 800 MW unit at its existing 2×600 MW thermal power plant and also another 1,500 MW solar plants in the mining areas. The company has 219 MW capacity of solar plants at eight locations out of 300 MW plants planned in the first phase. Work on the remaining 81 MW solar power plants is nearing completion.
Plans of the coal company were explained by Director (Operations) of SCCL S. Chandrasekhar while speaking at the 9 th Asian Mining Congress organised by the Mining, Geological & Metallurgical Institute of India (MGMI) at Kolkata on Tuesday. Speaking on “Technological Progress in the Mining Sector: Present Scenario and Challenges”, he said SCCL was ahead of several other public sector coal companies in the country in adopting new technologies.
