State-run ONGC Ltd is set to commence power production at Tripura Power Company Ltd’s plant in June 2012. Sudhir Vasudeva, Chairman and Managing Director, said the ONGC-promoted TPCL has established a 726.6 MW (363×2) gas-based thermal power plant at Palatana, Tripura, and laid a 650-km-long 400kV direct current transmission system up to Bongaigaon for evacuation [...]

National Buildings Construction Corporation Limited (NBCC), TRF Limited (TRF) and Simplex Infrastructures Limited are facing trouble for failing to expedite the pace of their respective works at NTPC’s Vindhyachal super thermal power project (STPP)-IV. The project is located in the Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh. According to reports, NBCC’s tardy progress has resulted in a [...]

A cloud of uncertainity has covered Adani Power’s (APL) 3,330 MW Tiroda thermal power project. Adani Power, which was banking on proposed captive supplies from the allotted Lohara West and Lohara Extension coal blocks, has been hassled over the lack of progress on the mining front after the environment ministry canceled the ToR of the [...]

NSL plans to develop, own and operate a 2×660 MW super critical coal based thermal power plant (TPP) located in the Angul district of Orissa. The TPP would require 1,018 acres of land. Super critical boilers will be installed in the plant which will be fired on coal sourced from Mahanadi coalfields Limited (MCL). The [...]

Madhya Pradesh Power Generating Company Limited (MPPGCL) Chairman and Chief Managing Director (CMD), K M Sajnani said they would start generation from two units of 250 MW each from the Satpuda Thermal Power Plant, Sarni and also 2×600 (1200 MW) from the Singaji Thermal Power Plant (Phase-I) in 2012-13 to enhance power generation in the [...]

GVK Thermal Power Plant at Goindwal sahib in Punjab would startoperating by March 23. GVK Reddy, Chairman-cum-Managing Director of GVK Power and Infrastructure Limited called on Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal at their residence separately to apprise them about the status of the ongoing project. Reddy reportedly [...]

Gail India chairman BC Tripathi said Dabhol LNG terminal will be commissioned on the first week of April with the first cargo of spot liquefied natural gas expected to arrive at the Maharashtra port on March 27. Speaking to reporters after announcing that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would inaugurate the 7 thAsia Gas Partnership Summit [...]

Madhucon Projects Ltd has kickstarted trial runs at unit one (150 MW) in the first phase of its Simhapuri thermal power plant project. The project in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh is being developed in three phases. The first two phases’ capacity is 300 MW each and the third, 1,320 MW . According to Nama [...]

Mudajaya Group Bhd’s Indian power plant which had drawn some controversy in the past, is being rated positively by analysts. It is said the company was also organising a trip for analysts and fund managers to the plant in India. “This has been in planning for some time as the plant isn’t very accessible. They [...]

NTPC is getting ready for the trial run of its phase II of 1000-MW thermal power plant coming up at Simhadri in Andhra Pradesh. The power starved Andhra Pradesh will get immensely benefitted thanks to the plant. It is to be noted that industries here are faced with two-day power holidays. The State plans to [...]