Hyderabad: After successful commissioning 219 MW solar power plants, Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) is now planning to establish additional 1,000 MW capacity solar power plants in the State.
SCCL Chairman and Managing Director N Sridhar instructed the officials to prepare proposals for establishing 1,000 MW solar plants and submit the same to the government for getting approval.
At a review meeting with the officials, he said that after getting approvals, solar power plants will be installed in unused and vacant government lands. He instructed officials to complete the works on installing a 15 MV solar floating plant on Singareni Thermal Power Plant (STPP) reservoir by May.
Sridhar said Singareni was the first coal company in the country to enter into thermal and solar power generation along with coal production and added that the SCCL had so far installed 219 MW solar power plants in the coal belt region and generated 21.29 crore units of power and saved power bills to the tune of Rs 65.27 crore.
He also instructed officials to complete the tendering process for the third phase of 66 MW solar power plants by April this year. Sridhar said that STPP had generated power at 90 per cent Plant Load Factor (PLF) in the last five months and emerged as the number one thermal station in the country. Compared with the first 10 months of the last financial year, the STPP has generated 7,737 million units of power by registering a growth of 25 per cent in the first 10 months of the current Financial Year, he said. Last year during the same period, it generated only 6,208 million units of power.
SCCL to start 10 new projects
Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) has drawn up action plans to start 10 new projects in two years with an investment of Rs 8,000 crore, said SCCL Chairman and Managing Director N Sridhar on Thursday.
The government-owned coal company fixed a target of producing 1,000 million tonnes of coal by 2023-24. On its part, the SCCL was making efforts to produce 75 million tonnes of coal out of 1,000 million tonnes, he said during a meeting with officials on the new projects.
The SCCL will start five new projects in the financial year 2022-23 with an investment of Rs 3,400 crore and all clearances for starting the new projects were already obtained and mining operations would commence from April. Naini coal block in Odisha, Venkatesh open cast mine in Kottagudem, RG open cast mine in RG3 area, Rompedu open cast in Illandu and Goleti open cast mine in Bellampalli will be started. These mines were expected to produce 30.3 million tonnes of coal every year.
“We are planning to open five more mines with an investment of Rs 2,400 crore in 2023-24 financial year for producing 24 million tonnes of coal yearly,” he said, adding that efforts were on to open a third coal block in Odisha. Sridhar said the assistance of other government departments would be taken in the mining of coal.
Source: telanganatoday
