Tata Power's Odisha project shelved

The company's efforts of setting up a coal-fired power station in Odisha have been stalled

Tata Power’s efforts to set up a coal-fired power station in Odisha have come unstuck despite the company settling for three locations. After failed attempts to establish the power plant with an original capacity of 1,000 Mw, later revised to 2,000 Mw, at Naraj-Marthapur near Cuttack and then at Begunia, 40 km from here, the company decided on a shore-based plant at Gopalpur on the state's southern coast.

In the redrawn project plan, Tata Power chose to use imported coal as fuel. But costlier imported coal together with the additional burden of putting up a desalination plant have pushed the project