Following is an excerpt from a Business Standard report on this.

JSW Energy Ltd (JSWEL), a Sajjan Jindal group company, is planning to set up three power plants in North and Eastern India. The company also plans to foray into non-renewable energy and transmission and distribution of power.

JSW Energy, which is executing over 3000 MW of power projects, is likely to set up either coal or lignite based power plants of above 1000 MW each in Orissa, Jharkhand and West Bengal. It is also in the process of conducting due diligence studies on wind and solar energy-based power projects. Investments in the new projects are expected to be over Rs 15,000 crore.