Many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Faridabad region of Haryana, who are members of the Faridabad Small Industries Association (FSIA), are joining hands and eyeing an arrangement for collective power purchase from a private electricity distribution company. SMEs in Faridabad are faced with bleak power situations that hurt their efficiency,
FSIA members said this could be the countryÂ’s first example of an SME cluster buying power from a private electricity distributor.
Author: admin (Infratructure Today)
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Faridabad SMEs to buy power from pvt discom
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Tata Power to modernise Trombay thermal plant
Tata Power has proposed modernisation of its 500 MW Unit 6 at Trombay Thermal Power Station. The plan includes addition of coal firing equipment and installation of pollution control equipment
to make the unit work on coal, oil and gas, wherein all three fuels can be combined in any percentage.
This is being done to control spiralling oil cost, the company said. The proposed modernisation will improve utilisation of full capacity of 500 MW. It will also reduce fuel cost and help lower tariffs
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Haryana for hydel project in Bhutan
Haryana government is setting up a joint venture hydel power project in Bhutan in partnership with the Royal Government of the independent State. Haryana Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that the State would get 1,500 to 2,000 MW power from Bhutan in next four to five years at rates economical than thermal power.
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SuzlonÂ’s arm wins order in Canada
For delivery of 51 wind turbines, Suzlon Group subsidiary, REpower Systems SE has concluded a contract with wpd Europe GmbH, a subsidiary of project developer wpd AG, the company announced. As part of this, a service and maintenance agreement (ISP) for a total of 15 years for the new projects was also concluded, the company said in a statement. The REpower MM92 turbines, each with a rated power of 2.05 MW, are intended for six projects to be constructed and commissioned in 2014.
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Coal shortage in 12th Plan
India may face coal shortage of 185 mn t during the 12th five-year plan as power capacity addition outpaces growth in coal production.
It is learnt that coal production by the terminal year of the 12th Plan may touch 795 mn t. During the 11th Plan, coal production was increased by 110 mn t and there was a gap of 140 mn t.
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BGR generators for NTPCs project
To supply two 800-MW steam turbine generators for NTPCÂ’s Lara Super Thermal Power Project, BGR Energy is set to start work on the Rs 1,548-crore contract in Chattisgarh. The NTPC project is a 4,000 MW project of 5 x800 mw and the Chennai-based BGR Energy will provide two (2x800 MW) steam turbine generators for the project.
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Leading firms eye ` 211.4 bn rail corridor project
Leading infrastructure companies like L&T IDPL, Gammon Infra, IL&FS Transportation, GMR Infra, CAF South Africa are eyeing the Rs 21,147-crore Mumbai elevated rail corridor project.The railways seeks to implement the 60-km corridor project on public private partnership (PPP) basis and would invite bidding for the same in a few months. Reports suggest that the railways would close the first round by March-end, when the bidders would submit requests for qualification (RFQs). The successful bidder
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Vizag, Vijayawada to operationalise BRTS
The trial runs for bus rapid transit system (BRTS) at both Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada have been completed recently. The project may be commissioned in 2013, reports suggest. Both projects, which began in 2008, have suffered delays by two or three years.The projects have been taken up with funds from the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURUM), with the central government bearing half of the cost. The Rs 150 crore Vijayawada BRTS project is a smaller one, covering only 15.5 km
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Local admin to acquire land for metro project
The civic administration of Kochi district is taking steps to acquire land for the Kochi metro rail project, which reqÂuires approximately 40 heÂctare. It is learnt that addi-tional land would be acquired for conÂstructing a metro vill-age adjacent to the proposed coach-maintenance yard in near Aluva.
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Modernisation of Rlys needs ` 5.6 trillion
Union Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said that an investment of Rs 5.6 lakh crore would be required to modernize Indian Railways. He also said that some major industries, mine and port merchants are coming forward for the expansion of railway tracks to intensify their services.
The dedicated state corridor between Ludhiana-Kolkata and Delhi-Mumbai would be completed before five years, he said. The total length of both the corridor railway tracks is 3,338 kilometer (km) and the Ludhiana cor