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{{#badges: CoalSwarm|Navbar-Indiacoal}} '''Wardha Warora Power Plant''' is a proposed 540 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station in the Warora Growth Centre, District Chandrapur, in Maharashtra. The project is owned by [[Wardha Power Company]] Limited ((WPCL), a subsidiary of [[KSK Energy Ventures]].<ref name="Project">KSK Energy Ventures, [http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/oil-energy/200705122867.htm "KSK Energy Ventures sets up a 540 MW Project in Maharashtra"], Media Release, May 13, 2007.</ref> The first three units of the 4X135 MW plant have been commissioned, with the final unit 4 completed in April 2011.<ref>[http://www.cea.nic.in/reports/monthly/executive_rep/apr11/8.pdf "India Central Electricity Authority Monthly Report,"] India Central Electricity Authority, April 2011.</ref>
The company states that coal will be sourced from [[Western Coalfields]], a subsidiary of [[Coal India]]. The plant is being built for WPCL by [[Shangdong Electric Power Construction Corporation]] (SEPCO).<ref name="Thermal">KSK Energy Ventures, [http://www.ksk.co.in/opr-evl-tp.html "Thermal Power Plants"], KSK Energy Ventures website, accessed May 2011February 2012.</ref>
==Free land and no public consultation==
In a media release on the project KSK Energy Ventures stated that the "Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) has lent support to the initiative by providing 94 hectors [sic] of land for the project in Warora".<ref name="Project"/>
In its letter granting environmental clearance for the project, the Ministry of Environment & Forests stated that, as the project was located in an industrial park, the project was exempt from public consultation.<ref name="Moef">Ministry of Environment & Forests, [http://www.ksk.co.in/env/Env-Clearance-WPCL.pdf "Letter to Wardha Power Company"], July 17, 2007, page 1.</ref>
In a 2007 media release KSK stated that the project was expected to cost Rs. 2400 Crores of which [[Rural Electrification Corporation]] Limited (REC) - Rs. 555 cr, HUDCO - Rs. 233 cr, [[Indian Overseas Bank]] (IOB) - Rs. 100 cr. KSK Energy Ventures Private Limited (Rs. 130 cr) and Viraj Profiles Limited (Rs. 90 cr) pump in a combined equity of Rs 220 cr.<ref name="Project"/>
(In 2007 USD the project total cost was $588.9 million with the respective shares being: Rural Electrification Corporation $136 million; HUDCO $57.2 million; Indian Overseas Bank $24.5 million, KSK $31.9 million and Viraj Profiles $22 million).<ref>[http://in.finance.yahoo.com/currencies/converter/#from=INR;to=USD;amt=900 "Currencies Center"], Yahoo, accessed February 2012. (The figures were converted using May 2007 currency rates).</ref>
==Power off-take agreements==
On its website KSK states that WPC has "entered into a power delivery agreement with various bulk consumers in the state of Maharashtra."<ref name="Thermal"/> In 2007 KSK stated that it had entered into a Power Purchase Agreement to supply 270 MW to the stainless steel maker Viraj Profiles.<ref name="Project"/>
==Project Details==
