Coal India subsidiary to set up 50-MW solar plant in Odisha

Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd () will arrange a 50-megawatt solar energy plant in Odisha’s Sambalpur district at a price of Rs 301.92 crore as a part of its aim to realize carbon neutrality by 2024. This challenge will scale back carbon dioxide emission by 91,020 tonnes every year and carbon offsets of round 24,824 tonnes every year, the general public sector unit mentioned in a launch on Saturday.

The Sambalpur-headquartered MCL has positioned an order with a Chennai-based agency, which can set up this inexperienced vitality challenge inside 10 months.

The plant will cater to the captive energy requirement of the MCL, which had earlier set-up a 2-MW solar energy plant in Sambalpur in 2014.

The MCL has set a goal of putting in 182 MW of solar energy by 2024 as a way to develop into a net-zero vitality firm, aligning itself to make use of cleaner types of vitality for coal manufacturing.

The subsidiary of Coal India had earlier launched environment-friendly floor miner expertise, which contributes over 95 per cent in coal manufacturing.

As one other environment-friendly initiative, the corporate has efficiently launched vertical rippers for blast-less over-burden elimination in Hingula and Kaniha opencast tasks.