Suzlon Energy, one of the pioneers of wind power in India, said it has finished commissioning its entire solar order book of 340 megawatt, and will focus on hybrid solar-wind projects going forward. Out of the 340 MW erected, 210 MW was erected in Telangana, 60 MW in Rajasthan and 70 MW in Maharashtra. The […]
Construction major Larsen & Toubro reported new orders worth more than ₹1600 cr from the hydrocarbon segment. The Onshore Projects business of the company’s hydrocarbon unit secured a contract for the design, supply, and construction of a large LNG Tank facility in the east coast of India. The business also secured additional work from existing […]
NTPC Ltd, India’s largest power producer, said it is raising $400 mln (Rs 2,600 cr) by selling dollar-denominated bonds that carry a 4.5% interest. The bonds were priced yesterday and the issue is now open, the company said. The notes will mature on March 19, 2028. Both the principal and interest payments will be made […]
State-owned oil marketing companies, Indian Oil, Hindustan Petroleum and Bharat Petroleum, are open to buying the land on which their retail outlets are located to offset rising real estate prices, oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said. Pradhan was responding to a concern about how rising real estate prices in cities and towns are leading to landlords […]
Larsen & Toubro, India’s largest construction company, and BHEL, India’s largest supplier of power plant equipment, are among those tapped by the Nuclear Power Corporation for the rollout of the first large-scale nuclear power plants developed using Indian technology. While L&T said it received a Rs 442 cr order to supply forgings for steam generators […]
More than six years after an agreement was signed, US-based Cheniere Energy has started supplying liquefied natural gas or LNG to India. The first ship, Meridian Spirit, set sail from Louisiana and will reach Dabhol in Maharashtra by around 28 March, said GAIL, which is India’s largest gas supplier. Under the terms of the supply […]
ONGC said the government of Mozambique has approved the field development plan for a gas field in ‘Area 1’, one of the largest gas blocks in East Africa. ONGC owns 16% of the block, while 4% of the block is owned by Oil India Ltd and another 10% is controlled by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd […]
Reliance Infrastructure, the construction and infrastructure arm of the Anil Ambani Group, said it got permission from the ministry of coal to increase its coal mining by about 6%. Sasan Power Project “has received permission from the ministry of coal, government of India.. to increase coal mining from 17 mln tonne per annum to 18 […]
Anil Ambani Group’s Reliance Infrastructure Limited said it won an arbitration award of Rs 292 crore against Government of Goa. The Arbitration Tribunal, in its award on February 16, 2018, ordered Government of Goa to pay Rs 292 crore to Reliance Infrastructure Limited by April 15, 2018, it said. “The need for arbitration arose due […]
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd, the largest Indian heavy equipment maker, said it won a Rs 1,034 cr order to set up a gas-based captive power plant at Hindustan Petroleum Corporation’s Visakh Refinery. The order, given on a turnkey basis, is part of the expansion project at the refinery at Andhra Pradesh. BHEL’s scope of work […]
IndiGrid, India’s first infrastructure investment trust for power assets, said it has acquired three transmission assets from its sponsor at a cost of 1,410 cr, taking the total assets under management to 5,300 cr. The company said it will also invest Rs 232 cr into Patran Transmission Company Limited, a unit of Techno Electric & […]
State-owned oil producer ONGC said it may not be able to keep up with the development schedule of its offshore oil block next to Reliance Industries’ KG D6, but said it was too early to ascertain the exact quantum of delay. The KG-DWN- 98/2 offshore block was supposed to see an investment of $5.1 bln […]
Renewable energy player Inox Wind said it won orders to erect wind power turbines with a combined capacity of 200 MW in the third round of national auctions held two days ago. The third round was for a total capacity of 1,000 MW or 1 GW, and was the third of the national wind power […]
Tata Power reported a sharp decline in its pretax profit due to costs rising faster than revenue. For the quarter ended December, the company’s revenue increased by about Rs 326 cr to Rs 7,041 cr compared to last year, but total operating expenses rose faster, by about Rs 580 cr on year. As a result, […]
In a move that is likely to benefit thermal power producers and coal manufacturers in India, power minister Raj Kumar Singh today said that efforts are being made to move towards ‘time of day’ tariff system to balance the interest of traditional and emerging power sectors. “We must understand that renewables cannot help us meet […]
A consortium of companies, including ONGC, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd, have taken a 10% stake in Lower Zakum Concession. The “participation fee” paid by the Indian consortium is 2.2 billion UAE dirhams (Rs 3,850 cr). The onshore field is located inside the UAE and is owned by the Abu Dhabi […]
JSW Energy Ltd reported a sharp decline in its profit on a sequential basis due to a steep increase in fuel costs, but the company’s numbers were an improvement on a year-on-year basis. The company’s profit before tax fell to just Rs 70 cr from Rs 417 cr in the preceding quarter due to lower […]
Tata Steel said it has completed the acquisition of a 135 MW power plant from a subsidiary of Jasper Industries for Rs 255 paid in cash. The thermal power plant, located in Cuttack district in Odisha, will help it increase its captive source of power to meet its growing demand, it said. The acquired company […]
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) said it won a Rs 2,800 cr order from Maharashtra State Power Generation Company (MAHAGENCO) to set up a 660MW coal-based thermal power project in Bhusawal Thermal Power Station in Maharashtra. It will be set up as an expansion project (Unit 6) of the existing power station. The 1,420 MW […]
Ashok Leyland, the auto arm of the Hinduja Group said it signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with Phinergy, an Israel-based company that is developing Aluminium Air batteries for long-range vehicles. Unlike lithium ion batteries, which need to be recharged after 200-500 km, a vehicle that uses aluminum air battery can run for several thousand […]
