NEW DELHI, June 19 -- India's private major Vedanta Alumina has asked the government for the allocation of a coal linkage for its 675 megawatt captive power plant in Orissa state.
The company approached the Coal Ministry for the allocation of a long-term coal linkage for the first phase of its project. The project is being built with a greenfield aluminum smelter with a capacity of 250,000 tons per annum. The project needs 3.88 million tons of coal from the Mahanadi Coalfield Ltd.
Vedanta Alumina, a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources, told the Coal Ministry it is currently constructing two projects.
Vedanta said it would start power generation in October, but in order to sustain the power generation, it needs a continuous supply of coal from late July.
In the second phase, the company said, it proposes doubling the capacity of smelter and captive power projects, The Financial Express newspaper said Tuesday.
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