Recently, Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd (UJVNL) has approached Jharkhand State Electricity Board to explore the possibility of forming a Joint Venture (JV) for a 2,000 MW Thermal Power Plant in Jharkhand.
A series of closures of big hydro projects has prompted Uttarakhand to now explore the possibility of setting up a thermal plant outside the hill state.
The approximate investment for the project is around Rs. 12,000 crore.
For the of purpose of exploring the possibility of JV with Jharkhand SEB, UJVNL’s managing director G P Patel visited to Ranchi for talks with top officials of Jharkhand SEB.
Uttarakhand chief secretary Alok Kumar Jain also wrote a letter to the union coal ministry, requesting for allocation of coal blocks.
With the hydropower sector taking a beating owing to closure of a series of big hydro projects, the UJVN, having an installed capacity of 1,306.25 Mw, has already entered into a joint venture with GAIL to set up two gas-power plants at Kashipur and Haridwar.
Also, an investment of Rs 2,500 crore is proposed in the two plants with a capacity of 350 Mw each.
The state run power generation company is also looking for a capacity addition target of 582 Mw (2 large and 18 small hydro projects) by the end of 12th Plan, aggregating the installed capacity of the company to 2,608 Mw.
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