The Barmer plant comprises of eight 135MW units to produce 1,080MW of power.
The Barmer plant uses lignite as a fuel source. Lignite is a low grade coal that RWPL,
currently, sources from the captive mine at Kapurdi in Barmer. Barmer Lignite Mining
Company Limited, a joint venture between RWPL and Rajasthan State Mines & Minerals
Ltd. has two captive mines – Kapurdi and Jalipa.
Unique features
- Located in the Thar Desert, the plant runs smoothly inspite of local weather
challenges — extreme heat and cold temperatures, sandstorms and lack of vegetation
and water.
- Its close proximity to the fuel source — the Jalipa and Kapurdi lignite mines —
gives the pithead power station an advantage.
- In a first for a power plant in India, a dedicated, 185-km pipeline has been
constructed to source water from the Indira Gandhi Canal.
- Fly ash generated from the power units is
utilized in cement plants.
Technical features
The Barmer plant is based on the CFBC technology, which allows the use of low-grade fuel
such as lignite. CFBC technology enables the plant to use the low-calorific coal, which also
has high sulphur and moisture levels.
