NTPC to use bamboo with coal at Solapur

In the first such initiative in India to produce clean energy, NTPC has decided to mix bamboo with coal for generating power at its thermal plant in Maharashtra's Solapur, the executive chairman of the CM's Task Force said on Monday.

- PTI

This development comes after Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis wrote to the National Thermal Power Corporation chairman proposing to start India's first biomass-based (bamboo) thermal power project at its Solapur Super Thermal Power Station, a 1,320 MW coal-fired project.

Pasha Patel, executive chairman of the Chief Minister's Environment and Sustainable Development Task Force, said bamboo will be purchased from farmers in Solapur and other adjoining regions.

Patel said that the Solapur thermal power project will be the first project in India to start using bamboo as a biomass in power production.