MoEF grants nod under CRZ Notification to Tata Power's Trombay unit.

The Union environment ministry has accorded clearance under the coastal zone regulations for enhancing the coal handling capacity, installation of a coal conveyor, stackyard and flue-gas desulfurisation disposal at Tata Power’s Trombay plant in northeast Mumbai.

The approval was issued on May 12.

The ministry has laid down 25 conditions to be followed by Tata Power while carrying out the proposed works at the Trombay plant with a generation capacity 1,580 MW.

Tata Power needs to increase coal handling capacity and allied activity as it converts one 500 MW unit at the plant to coal from oil at an investment of Rs. 1,174 crore. The company has received approval from the environment ministry and the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board for the conversion.

Tata Power imports 2.4 million tonnes of coal for the existing coal-fired units and has planned that the capacity of the Trombay coal terminal be expanded to 4.4 million tonnes.



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