With green power, RINL does a first in country.

The Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited, the corporate entity of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, recently became the first steel plant in the country to launch a trend-setting project to generate power with green technology in collaboration with Japan from the Sinter Cooler Waste Heat Recovery Power Plant.

The project costing Rs.300 crore engages green technology at every stage of operation as part of MoU RINL signed with New Energy Industrial Technology Development Organisation (NEDO)-Japan Project. The plant will generate 20.6 MW.

'RINL has successfully implemented NEDO Model Project on sinter cooler waste heat recovery system under Green Aid Plan from our country,' Fumio Ueda, Executive Director of NEDO, told The Hindu.

'Power will be generated by using the waste heat without burning any fossil fuels. The project will reduce CO emissions to the extent of 2,20,616 tonnes annually,' said RINL Chairman-cum-Managing Director P. Madhusudan.


THE HINDU