Major Engineering and Equipment Company Builds-to-Own Its First Coal Plant

摘要

Given the opportunity to help India's bread basket alleviate a chronic power shortage, a major engineering, construction, and manufacturing firm built its first 1,400-MW coal-fired power plant in just 54 months. Today, the plant is one of India's most efficient and best performing coal plants, and well deserving of a POWER Top Plant award. Tucked away in India's northwestern corner, the relatively small state of Punjab is the country's bread basket, the source of nearly a fifth of the country's wheat supplies, 10% of its "cotton, and 11% of its rice. But for decades, the agricultural powerhouse's economy had been stunted by political indecision that left its power sector - largely under the control of the state government - stagnant.