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Transmission
Tata Power to invest Rs 1,000 cr in cables
India’s largest private power generation company Tata Power is planning to lay its own distribution cable network in the Mumbai with the investment of around Rs 1,000 crore over the next three years. At present, Tata Power serves around 8 lakh consumers using the distribution netwok of BEST and Reliance Infrastructure. For this, Tata Power is...
Transmission
New Transmission Projects
Government has notified five transmission projects for implementation with private sector participation through tariff based competitive bidding route. The notified schemes are inter-State transmission projects and as such these do not belong to any particular state. Details of the transmission schemes are given below: Sl Transmission Scheme Estimated...
Hydel
Status Of Maheshwar Hydro Power Project
Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) vide letter dated 23.04.2010, directed the project proponent M/s. Maheshwar Hydro Power Project to get the on-going construction works at the site suspended with immediate effect for non-fulfillment of Terms and Conditions of specific identified environmental issues, till the compliance report is found implementable...
Thermal Energy
Cost Escalation In Sipat Super Thermal Power Project
The first unit of Stage-I of Sipat Super Thermal Power Project (3×660 MW) in Chhattisgarh was scheduled to be commissioned in April, 2008 and subsequent two units were expected to be commissioned one after another in gaps of ten months each in between commissioning of each of the units. Construction of the project is delayed since M/s Power Machine...
Thermal Energy
Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project – Details
Due to misrepresentation of facts by Globeleq-Lanco consortium, the Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project earlier awarded to the consortium was cancelled. The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) set up for facilitating expeditious decisions in all cases concerning Ultra Mega Power Projects (UMPPs) examined the matter relating to the award of 4000 MW Sasan...
Thermal Energy
Gas Allocation for GMR & Lanco Power Projects
Ministry of Power has recommended projects for allocation of gas which are likely to be commissioned during the 11th Plan as per the assessment of Central Electricity Authority. Lanco Infratech (Lanco Kondapalli Stage-III) and GMR (Vemarigi Expansion) in Andhra Pradesh are also included in the list of above recommended projects. Both the companies...
Hydro
Status Of Hydro Electric Projects In Himachal Pradesh
No new hydro-electric project has been started by Central Government in Himachal Pradesh during the last two years and upto March, 2011. Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) of two Hydro-electric Projects (HEPs) have been received in Central Electricity Authority (CEA) for concurrence from Government of Himachal Pradesh in connection with setting up of...
Thermal Energy
NTPC to ink deal with Sri Lanka
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) of India will sign a deal with Sri Lanka regarding the construction of a coal power plant in Sampur in Trincomalee district of the Eastern Province. The deal will be inked in the first week of September. India’s High Commissioner in Colombo Ashok K. Kantha recently said that, negotiations were completed...
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear power generation: 20,000 MW in 20 years
India’s nuclear power generation is set to reach 20,000 MW in another 20 years, according to a top official of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR). Speaking to reporters in Coimbatore on the sidelines of a function, IGCAR director S C Chetal said, ‘At present about 4,785 MW is being generated by 20 atomic power stations of different...
Thermal Energy
Solapur stands first in thermal power plant list
Maharashtra, which is suffering from acute power shortage, is all set to get an ultra-thermal power plant. Located 15 km outside the Solapur city, the power plant, with 1,320 MW power generation capacity and with more eco-friendly facilities than the existing thermal power plants, will have super critical technology, which will help lower emission of...
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Data & Statistics
- List of Power Projects To Be Commissioned in 2013
- List of Power Projects To Be Commissioned in 2012
- List Of Deferred Thermal Power Projects – As on March 2012
- Indian power sector attracted Rs 5,567 cr foreign investment
- State-wise and plant-wise thermal power generation capacity as on 31st July, 2011
