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NLC aims at 19,000 MW generation capacity by 2025

India Coal Market Watch

November 18: Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) has set an ambitious target to increase its power generation capacity to 19,000 MW by 2025, according to information available with ICMW.

 The navratna company, which has a current generation capacity of around 3,253.50 MW, plans to go for coal-based generation “in a big way”.

“We have plans to go for coal mining and coal-based power generation in a big way. We have set ourselves a high growth target to be a 19,000-MW power company (by 2025) with our own fuel security from our own lignite and coal mines,” company Chairman-cum-Managing Director S K Acharya recently said.

Earlier, NLC had set a target of achieving a capacity of 11,195 MW by the end of the 13^th Five Year Plan (2022).

NLC has five pithead thermal power stations with an aggregate capacity of 3,240 MW.

Further, NLC has so far installed 9 wind turbine generators of 1.50 MW each, aggregating 13.50 MW, thereby increasing the overall power generating capacity to 3,253.50 MW.

The company has forayed into renewable energy with the setting up of a 10-MW solar photo voltaic power plant in Neyveli.