Nalco and NTPC ink MoU to set up power plant in Odisha

Nalco and NTPC ink MoU to set up power plant in Odisha

BHUBANESWAR: Central PSUs — National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) and NTPC Limited signed a MoU in New Delhi on Friday to set up a 2400 MW (8x300 MW) power plant at Gajmara in Dhenkanal district. 
 
The estimated investment in all these projects will be approximately Rs 36,000 crores," Union power minister Piyush Goyal, who attended the MoU signing ceremony, told reporters. 
Goyal said. NTPC has approved a proposal to modernize all power plants older than 25 years within next 5 years, by replacing them with energy efficient supercritical power plants. 
 
Among others, Dhenkanal MP Tathagata Satpathy, state mines minister Prafulla Kumar Malik, Nalco CMD T K Chand and NTPC CMD Gurdeep Singh were present on the occasion. Times of India

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