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Power Grid Corporation board to raise Rs 900 cr via bonds
The scope includes the installation of 765kV D/c transmission line
Steel shining!
India is the third largest steel producer in the world after China and Japan and has an installed capacity of about 131 million tonne (mt) at present. It produced 101 mt of steel in FY2017 and consumed 84 mt during the same period.
The Missing Link
Buoyed by the positive response from the industry and the proactive approach adopted by various state governments, India is now making rapid strides in the solar segment. The country's solar power generation has gone up 14 times in a span of just five years from 0.5 MW in 2011 to 7 GW now.
PGCIL still has some distance to go
It may have done well but its efforts to upgrade the country's transmission sector haven't been enough, yet.
Govt looking at Rs.3.3 lakh cr investments in transmission
The government is looking at an investment of around $50 billion (around Rs 3.3 lakh crore) in the transmission segment in the next five years. Piyush Goyal, Union Power Minister, said, ´In the next six months, at least 12-13 transmission lines are being bid out worth $16 billion. Hopefully, in the next five years, we are looking at an investment of nearly $50 billion.
SPML Infra secures new orders worth Rs. 1802.10 crores
SPML Infra Ltd., India's leading infrastructure development company has won new orders worth Rs. 1802.10 Crores from South Bihar Power Distribution Company Ltd. (SBPDCL), Bihar and Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) of Rajasthan.
A mismatch in expectations
Pipelines and transmission lines have lower resistance to RoW or RoU acquisition than that for industries or power plants, except in cities. But that’s changing, says Janaki Krishnamoorthi, who analyses projects that have been stalled because of public protest against low compensation.
KEC bags Saudi order
KEC International (KEC) has secured order from Saudi Arabia for supply and construction of transmission lines on turnkey basis.
Powergrid to double new lines
Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL) plans to install about 65,000 circuit km (ckm) of transmission lines during the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017), which is more than twice the likely installation in the current Plan.