Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited (NLC) plans to invest more than Rs.17,000 crore for its thermal power projects and has embarked upon an afforestation programme inside and outside the coal mining area in Odisha.

Plans to assign the design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection, commissioning, etc. of Flue Gas desulphurisation system (FGD) package at the existing 3x660 MW Ghatampur Thermal Power Project (GTPP) of NUPPL at Ghatampur Tehsil, Uttar Pradesh.

Plans to install a 900-kW rooftop solar PV system at NTPC-Bongaigaon thermal power project in Kokrajhar district of Assam. The work is likely to start in May 2019.

The Central Public Sector Enterprise has invited pre-qualification of consultants for environmental impact assessment (EIA) studies of coal/gas based thermal power projects.

SJVN Ltds subsidiary is setting up 2x660 MW Buxar Thermal Power Project (Buxar TPP) in District Buxar of Bihar. The CCEA has recently approved the project.

State-run power equipment maker Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has recently commissioned two units of 270 mega watt (MW) thermal power project at Sinnar in Nashik district of Maharashtra.

NTPC Ltd plans to assign the maintenance work for Dry Ash Handling System for Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project at Jharli in Jhajjar District, Haryana.

MahaGenco plans to develop a pit-head based thermal power project in the state of Chhattisgarh (C.G.). The company has got coal block allocation in Gare Palma sector I located in the Mand Raigad coalfield in Chhattisgarh Raigad district.

Larsen & Toubro Ltd (L&T) has achieved synchronisation of its first 660 MW supercritical unit (Unit-5) of the 2x660 MW supercritical thermal power project coming up at Chhabra in the state of Rajasthan.