Thermal units get two-year breather on emission gear
The environment ministry has given a blanket two-year extension — the third one— to coal-based power plants for complying with desulphurisation norms. In a notification, the ministry has extended the deadline for installing flue-gas desulphurisation (FGD) units, which remove sulphur dioxide (SO2) from the exhaust gases of thermal plants for all categories of power plants.
The ministry has also announced graded penalties for missing the new deadline, at Rs 0.40 per unit of electricity generated for a delay of 366 days and beyond.
