The Central Government has offered its environmental clearance to Ramco Cements for the expansion of its captive power plant (CPP) at its Alathiyur cement production facility in Tamil Nadu entailing a cost of $3.18 million. The company has planned to include 6MW turbines based on air-cooled condensers, facilitating augmentation of overall power generation capacity to 42MW. The company has decided to operate the power generation facility with Indonesian coal.