India okays construction of Mauda, Dhuvaran expansion projects

India's Ministry of Environment and Forests has accorded environmental clearance to NTPC's 2x660 MW supercritical technology based Mauda Stage-II TPP. Located in the Nagpur district of Maharashtra, this project is an expansion of the under-construction 2x500 MW Stage-I TPP.

The land requirement for both the plant is about 1,800 acres, out of which about 828 acres of land is partly single and partly double crop agricultural land.

The water requirement for the poroposed plant will be 40 cusecs, which will be met from hosikurd Dam on Wainganga / Kanhnan river at a distance 24 kms from the site.

A total of 7.85 MTPA of indigenous coal will be required to operate the proposed plant at 90% plant load factor, which will be supplied from Mahanadi Coalfields Limited.