NLC India Ltd

NLC Eyes 4,200 MW Renewable Power Generation By 2025

NLC India Ltd (formerly known as Neyveli Lignite Corporation), the Navaratna company under the Ministry of Coal, has set a target to reach 21,011 Mw power generation by 2025.

The company which was traditionally a lignite and coal-based power producer is planning to generate over 4,200 mega watts through renewables.

India has already set a renewable energy target of 175 Gw in order to achieve a target of generating at least 40 per cent of its power requirements using non-fossil fuel by 2022 and 45 per cent by 2030.

The objective is to reduce the country’s carbon footprint and to mark growth of renewable energy as a key indicator of the nation’s economic development.

NLC has set a target to reach 21,011 Mw power generation by 2025 with a share of 4,251 Mw from renewable energy. In 2019, with the commissioning of a 709-Mw solar power plant in Tamil Nadu, the company’s renewable energy capacity rose to 1,404 Mw.

Its thermal capacity rose to 4,640 Mw with the commissioning of the 500-Mw Unit-I of Neyveli New Thermal Power Project. NLC’s total power generating capacity, therefore, has gone up to 6,044 Mw.

This is a Syndicate News-Feed; edited by Clean-Future Team