Power is a critical infrastructure for economic development and for improving the quality of life. With increasing urbanization, industrial growth and per capita consumption, the gap between the actual demand and supply is likely to widen. In bridging the demand supply gap and conservation of fossil fuels, the Government believes that alternate sources of energy including energy generated through waste heat recovery process are like to play an increasingly important role.

In manufacturing coke, volatile matter gets released from the raw coal in the form of gas and is burnt in the oven to produce heat for carbonization. After carbonization, the waste heat is released to the atmosphere at a very high temperature level. If such waste heat is used to generate steam, the same can be used in the steam turbine for power generation at a very low cost as it involves no raw material or use of any other fossil fuel.

Ennore Coke Ltd. has proposed to set up a power plant of 6 MW capacity in the premises of the Met Coke project.