The Maharashtra state power generation company (MahaGenco) has decided to make use of \u201cgreen-coal\u201d at the Parli thermal power station in Beed district.<\/p>\n
The state power utility has invited expression of interest from prospective bidders for the supply of \u201cbiomass briquettes bio coal\u201d for the boiler of one of the three units of the plant having individual power generation capacity of 250 MW.<\/p>\n
Mohan Avhad, the Parli thermal power station\u2019s chief engineer, said the plant will be the first MahaGenco facility to use \u201cgreen coal\u201d on an experimental basis.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe alternative green fuel to be used will have agro residue or crop residue as the base material. We have three units, each of 250 MW capacity. They together require around 11,000-12,000 tonne coal per day if the plant is operating at the designed capacity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
While the coal for the Parli plant is arranged from mines near Hyderabad and the Vidarbha region, the proposed use of green coal is expected to save huge transportation cost besides offering environmental benefits and providing supplementary income to the rural population. Pasha Patel, the former president of Maharashtra state commission for agriculture and prices, who has been advocating the use of \u201cgreen coal\u201d at thermal plants, said the use of eco-friendly fuel would give boost to bamboo cultivation in the state, especially in the Marathwada region.<\/p>\n
\u201cWeather-resistant bamboo plants can be the ideal raw material for green coal. Also, the rural population, including farmers, are in possession of large quantities of biomass in the form of agricultural waste. This too can be easily used for producing green coal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Patel, a former BJP MLC, said a single farmer can cultivate around 50 tonne of bamboo per acre and earn an income in the range of Rs 3,500 to Rs 5,000 per tonne.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe National Capital Power Station at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh has already initiated steps to use the green-coal. Maharashtra should also emulate the revolutionary decision,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Maharashtra state power generation company (MahaGenco) has decided to make use of \u201cgreen-coal\u201d at the Parli thermal power station in Beed district. The state power utility has invited expression of interest from prospective bidders for the supply of \u201cbiomass briquettes bio coal\u201d for the boiler of one of the three units of the plant having individual power generation capacity of 250 MW. Mohan Avhad, the Parli thermal power station\u2019s chief engineer, said the plant will be the first MahaGenco facility to use \u201cgreen coal\u201d on an experimental basis. \u201cThe alternative green fuel to be used will have agro residue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}