Sampur power station

The Sampur power station is a 500 megawatt coal-fired power station which has been proposed to be constructed at Sampur, Trincomalee in Sri Lanka.

Background
In June 2005 the National Thermal Power Corporation, an Indian electricity generation company, announced that they planned to "submit a proposal to the Government of Srilanka to set up a 900 MW Coal/LNG based Power Project in Srilanka on Build, Own, Operate (BOO) / Build, Own, Operate and Transfer (BOOT) basis."

In late December 2006 NTPC announced that the proposed project had been reduced to a 500MW station and that the fuel would be coal only. The company announced that it "will be signing on 29th December 2006 a Memorandum of Agreement with Government of Sri Lanka and Ceylon Electricity Board for development of a 2X250 MW Coal based Power Project at Trincomalee in Sri Lanka. The project would be developed through a joint venture company between NTPC and Ceylon Electricity Board."

In September 2011, the Sri Lanka Ministry of Power and Energy reaffirmed that the original plan of developing the Sampur coal power project up to 3,600 megawatt in several stages had been curtailed and limited to 500 megawatts. Construction was said to begin in 2012, and the power generation linked to the national grid in 2017. The joint venture will cost US$ 500 million.

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