Notification No. S.O. 3305 on Thermal Power Plants Standards

Last updated: 25 June 2024

The regulation aims at limiting air pollutants steming from thermal power plants. 
Standards for coal based power plant's units installed before December 2003 are as follow: SO2: 200-600 mg/nm3 // NOx: 600 mg/nm3 // PM: 100 mg/nm3 // Hg: 0.03 mg/nm3. 
Standards for coal based power plant's units installed between January 2004 and December 2016 are as follow: SO2: 200-600 mg/nm3 // NOx: 300 mg/nm3 // PM: 50 mg/nm3 // Hg: 0.03 mg/nm3. 
Standards for coal based power plant's units installed from January 2017 onwards are as follow: SO2: 100 mg/nm3 // NOx: 100 mg/nm3 // PM: 30 mg/nm3 // Hg: 0.03 mg/nm3. 

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