Coal shipments: Tangedco plans to use JSW terminals
CHENNAI: Tangedco is planning to use conglomerate JSW’s coal terminals in Odisha’s Paradip and Tamil Nadu’s Ennore ports to transport additional loads of coal to meet summer demand at its thermal power plants. Discussions to this end are on, according to a senior Tangedco official.
According to a source in Tangedco, it takes 72,000 tonnes of coal a day to operate the State’s five coal-based thermal power plants, which meet the bulk of the State’s power demand. For this, coal would be extracted from Coal India corporation’s mines and shipped to Tamil Nadu via Odisha’s Paradip port.
