Godda Thermal Power Station is an under construction coal based power plant. It is located in

Godda district Godda district (Hindi: गोड्डा जिला, Santali: ᱜᱚᱰᱰᱟ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ) is one of the twenty-four districts of Jharkhand state in eastern India It lies in the northeastern part of the state. The geographical area that n ...

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . It ...

, India. The power generation capacity of the power plant is 1,600 megawatts. This power plant is under construction under an agreement between the

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and

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. The thermal power plant will produce electricity from December, 2022.

History

In February 2016,

Adani Power Adani Power is an Indian power and energy company. A subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Adani Group with head office at Khodiyar in Ahmedabad, it is a private thermal power producer, with a capacity of 12,450 MW that operates a mega solar plant o ...

had applied for terms of reference to build a 1,600 MW coal-based power plant in

. The terms of reference were approved in July 2016. The project was given environmental clearance on 31 August 2017.

signed a MoU with the

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on 11 August 2016 to set up 2x800 MW thermal power plants in

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on build-and-operate (BOO) basis.EIA
Adani Power, 19 September, 2022

Capacity

It has an installed capacity of 1,600 Mega Watts.

Fuel

The thermal power plant will use imported coal as fuel. The company plans to procure coal under long-term contracts from countries like

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and

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. Finally known that coal will supply from Australia's Carmichael mine for the power plant at Godda. The imported coal will be unloaded from ships at

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and transported to the power plant by rail. An estimated 7-9 million tonnes of coal will be required annually.

Protest

Local peoples were assaulted and harassed for acquiring land for power projects. According to Newslaundry, few local news publications published short reports on the violence. A legal case filed by local villagers in the

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was scheduled for hearing as early as August 2020. The

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denied all allegations brought by the claimants and contested the court action. High power transmission lines have been constructed in

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area of Murshidabad district in

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to carry electricity from Adani Group's thermal power plant in Jharkhand's Godda district to neighboring

. Farmers are protesting against the installation of high-voltage cables over mango-litchu orchards and the cutting of mango-litchu trees in orchards.

References

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