National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd (NTPC) has commissioned a 500-MW unit of a thermal power plant in Bihar, taking its total generation capacity in the country close to the 30,000 MW-mark. NTPC’s second unit of 500 MW of Kahalgaon Thermal Power Project - Stage II located in Bihar has been successfully test synchronized on March 16. With the commissioning of this unit, the commissioned capacity of Kahalgaon project is 1,840 MW and the company’s total installed capacity stands at 29,144 MW.
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Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has bagged a Rs 2,030-crore contract from Bhartiya Rail Bijlee Company (BRBCL) a joint venture company of NTPC Ltd and Indian Railways for the supply and installation of the main plant package for the upcoming 1,000 MW Nabinagar thermal power project in Bihar. BHEL’s scope of work includes design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of steam generators with electrostatic precipitators and associated auxiliaries and so on. Slated for synchronization during the Eleventh Plan, these units will add 24 million units every day to the grid on commissioning.
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Reliance Energy (REL) is close to inking an agreement with Indiabulls Real Estate (IBREL) to jointly develop a 6,000-acre multi-product special economic zone (SEZ) in Maharashtra’s Raigad district, as per sources.
This move is part of REL’s aspirations to enter the real estate and infrastructure development. The 22-km Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) project from Sewree to Nhava-Sheva, bagged by REL, would service this SEZ. The proposed SEZ will consist of an industrial processing area of 2,100 acres, a commercial area of 900 acres, a residential area of 1,500 acres, and open space of 1,500 acres. It will comprise of a central core with various industry hubs.
Facilities in the central core will include convention centres, business incubation facilities with ready-to-move-in office space and laboratories, R&D facilities and contract research, data centres and quality analysis and data retrieval facilities. Industry hubs will include institutions of learning and innovation, design and transportation facilities. The proposed residential space will comprise of residential developments and landscaped parks with central recreational facilities such as club houses, a tennis academy and green zones. The commercial space will include provisions for hotels, shopping facilities, office space, entertainment facilities and healthcare.
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