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KOLKATA: India’s largest thermal power producer, NTPC Limited has invited bids for import of five-million tons of coal for fuelling its 13 plants across the country. Bid documents will be issued until April 25, and coal imports would be through international competitive bidding for several supply packages. The power...
KOLKATA/ANGUL: The utility major National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) has expressed confidence to cross its power generation target during the 12th five year plan. “We are confident to produce about 13,000MW of additional power during the current plan period as against the target of 11500 MW,” said Chairman...
HYDERABAD: AP Genco has achieved a turnover of Rs 11,381 crore for 2011-12, up 25 per cent over last year. Thereby, it has become a $ 2.2 billion plus State-owned power utility. The corporation achieved a net profit of Rs 401 crore, up 28 per cent, mainly due to...
MUMBAI: Tecpro Systems, an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company, today said it has bagged orders worth Rs 296.90 crore from Abhijeet Projects and NTPC. The company said in a BSE filing that it has received orders aggregating to Rs 296.90 crore from Abhijeet Projects and NTPC. The order...
NEW DELHI: Alstom T&D India said it has received a Rs 150 crore from Jaypee Group for supply of high voltage power transformers. The scope of work includes designing, manufacturing, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of 765 kV generator transformers, interconnecting transformers, lines and bus reactors, Alstom T&D India...
MUMBAI: Routine operations at the 440-Mw Kalpakkam plant in Tamil Nadu were normal on Wednesday, after a major earthquake in Indonesia, the Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) said. It added there was no need to either stop the generation or shut the plant after the east Asian nations and India’s...
NEW DELHI: Questions raised over its viability and security will delay the capacity addition of nuclear power generation, making it difficult to achieve the targetted 20,000 MW by 2020, says a Planning Commission Member. “The pace at which we are progressing I will be surprised if we reach 20,000...
NEW DELHI: A move that would benefit mineral-rich states significantly, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) is likely to consider tomorrow a new royalty regime for coal and lignite. Royalty for coal and lignite has been proposed to be shifted to an ad-valorem rate of 14 per cent...
KOLKATA: Coal India plans to raise prices of some grades of coal after a review at the end of this month but the increase would not be steep, top company executives told ET. “The CIL management is likely to finalise the issue of fuel supply agreements (FSAs) in the...
NEW DELHI: S Narsing Rao, CMD designate of Coal India Ltd (CIL) will attend as special invitee the company’s board meeting which has been called on April 16 to consider the model agreement with power producers for assured fuel supply as per the government directive. “Rao has been asked...