State presses for coal linkage for OPGC expansion.

The Odisha government has pressed for grant of interim coal linkage to meet the dry fuel need of its PSU Odisha Power Generation Corporation (OPGC).

OPGC is going ahead on its expansion plan that will add two 660 MW super critical units to its existing station at Banharpalli near Jharsuguda with capacity of 420 MW.

The state run firm has already started construction on its brownfield expansion. Though it has been allocated Manoharpur and Manoharpur dip side coal blocks for the expansion programme, production from these blocks does not synchronise with the commissioning of the two units scheduled by the last quarter of 2016-17.


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