CESC to set up 1000 MW power unit in Dhenkanal by 2013

CESC Limited, the flagship company of the Kolkata-based RPG Group would set up 1,000 MW coal based power plant at Neulapoi in Dhenkanal district of the state.

In 2006, the company had signed an MoU (memorandum of understanding) with the Orissa government over the proposed power plant. The company sources say that the land acquision for the proposed plant would be completed by June this year.

The company to make the plant operational by 2013. The CESC needed 4.53 million tonnes of coal per annum for its 1,000 MW power project. The company has been in process of making coal inkage by the end of 2009.