NLC CMD again mentions Steel Making

From Plext’s post / find,  which I think deserved its own thread, another reference to NLC’s future plans of steel making.
Seems DR Acharya mentions steel making in a lot of his interviews these days.

Article posted on the 26^th April 2018.
http://www.dailypioneer.com/vivacity/creating-wealth-for-well-being.html


Could you elaborate on the growth plans of NLC India?

Our plans for going super critical and ultra super critical power plants with unit capacity from 660 MW to 800 MW have been chalked out with 2 x 660 MW = 1320 MW happening now in Neyveli complex and 4 x 800 MW = 3,200 MW coming up at Talabira complex in Odisha. We are into a big time for commercial coal mining businesses that we are venturing into. As a part of our expanding renewable business, apart from generating solar and wind power in a big way, we will soon set up battery charging stations along the national highways in Tamil Nadu and in other parts of the country and exploring the possibility of supplying lignite to south based power stations for blending with coal to supplement the primary fuel requirement by 10 per cent. We have a plan to extract sand from our mined overburden on commercial scale and also have plans for using lignite as a substitute for coking coal for making steel.


Cheers

M.oz