Gujarat Ambuja Cements has expanded the envisaged capacity of its upcoming captive power plant in Gujarat, from 60 MW to 90 MW. Confirming the development, a senior official of Gujarat Ambuja Cements told ProjectsToday that a decision to add one more unit of 30 MW, to the originally planned two units of 30 MW, has been taken.

Unit 1 of 30 MW is under execution with completion targeted for December 2006. Unit 2 is likely to be commissioned by March 2007. Work on Unit 3 will begin in February 2007 with completion targeted for March 2008. The cost of Unit 3 is an estimated Rs.114 crore, while the first two units will involve an outlay of Rs.225 crore. Bharat Heavy Electricals is the EPC contractor for the project.

The 90 MW captive power plant is taking shape at Ambuja Nagar (Kodinar) in Gujarat's Junagadh district. The plant will fulfill the increased power requirements arising from capacity expansions at the Ambuja Nagar cement plan. Gujarat Ambuja is in the midst of a three-year investment programme costing Rs.2,000 crore envisaging an increase in overall cement capacity from the current 14 million tpa to 20 million tpa, to be achieved through both brownfield and greenfield expansions.

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