NTPC to import 5 million tonnes coal
05 Apr 2012
State-owned power utility National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd (NTPC) has invited bids for supply of five million tonnes of imported coal for fuelling its various power plants.
The supplies will be contracted through an international competitive bidding process and NTPC has already made bid documents available from 4 April.
NTPC imported about 16 MT of coal in the financial year ended March 2012.
Out of the 5 million tones coal imported, 2.5 million tones will be used by NTPC's two power projects in Odisha - the 460-MW Talchar thermal project and the 3,000-MW Talcher Kaniha project - as well as the 2,100-MW Farakka project in West Bengal and the 2,340-MW Kahalgaon project in Bihar.
The company will import 0.9 million tonnes of coal for the 1,500-MW Simhadri and 2,600-MW Ramagundam projects in Andhra Pradesh.
Another 0.9 million tonnes of imported coal would be required for the 1,820-MW Dadri, 2,000-MW Rihand, 2,000-MW Singrauli, 460- MW Tanda, 1,050-MW Unchahar (all in Uttar Pradesh) and the 3,260-MW Vindhyachal project in Madhya Pradesh.