Coal India teams up with DVC to set up supercritical power plant in Jharkhand
- April 21, 2025
Coal India Ltd (CIL) has teamed up with Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) to put up a supercritical thermal power plant in Jharkhand.
In a release, CIL said that it has formally joined hands with DVC to set up a 2×800-MW ultra supercritical coal-fired power plant in Jharkhand.
This proposed plant will come up as an extension of DVC’s existing 2×250-MW Chandrapura thermal power station located in Bokaro district of Jharkhand.
A non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the two government-owned energy entities on April 21, 2025 in Kolkata, in the presence of P M Prasad, Chairman, CIL and Mr. S Suresh Kumar, (IAS) Chairman, DVC, the release said.
The total investment would be to the tune of Rs.16,500 crore and the proposed joint venture company would have 50 per cent equity participation each from CIL and DVC.
Coal for the proposed power plants would be sourced from coalfields in the proximity from CIL’s subsidiary companies Bharat Coking Coal Ltd and Central Coalfields Ltd.
According to official information available, DVC currently has installed power generation capacity of around 6687 MW coming mainly from conventional sources, mainly comprising coal-fired power plants but also including a couple of small hydropower plants.
Apart from 2×800-MW plant discussed in this story, DVC has also planned to put up 2×800-MW capacity at its Koderma thermal power station in Jharkhand, apart from 2×660-MW at the Raghunatpur power plant in West Bengal. A new 800-MW unit has also been planned at Durgapur in West Bengal.
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