Vedanta Group company Bharat Aluminium Company ltd (BAlCO) is mulling over plans to establish a new 1000 MW captive power plant in future.
“We are planning to expand capacity of aluminium production to 10 lakh metric tonnes for which the Smelter would require more electricity’, BAlCO CEO and Whole-time Director Ramesh Nair said at Press conference here on Monday.
He said that the company would soon commence the work for constructing a 3.5 million tonnes capacity Smelter .
BAlCO has taken a series of steps to bring down the cost of alumina production, Nair said.