Chettinad gets go signal for coal-based plant

India's Ministry of Environment and Forest okayed Chettinad Power's proposed 1,200 MW merchant coal based thermal power plant.

The proposed coal based power plant will be constructed in the Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu and will entail an investment of US$1.57 billion and will have two units, of 600 MW capacity, each.

Each generating unit will have pulverized coal fired boilers, using both domestic and imported coal, an extraction-condensing steam turbine with

regenerative heaters and water cooled condensers.

The plant will be housed over 332.5 hectares of land spread across the villages of Erukkattanchery, Kazhizppanallur and Manickapangu.

The coal requirement for the project has been estimated to be of the order of 3.4 million tonnes per annum, when fully fuelled with imported

Indonesian coal. If fired with a 70:30 blend of Indonesian and indigenous coal, the fuel requirement would stand at 3.8 MTPA.

The water requirement for the project has been estimated as 115.8 MCM/annum, which would be met with sea water from the Bay of Bengal.



The power generated from this project would be evacuated to Power Grid Corporation of India Limited`s 400 kV substation at Cuddalor.