DIVERSIFIED business conglomerate Videocon today said it plans to generate 5,000 MW power through projects in Gujarat, Chhatisgarh, Maharashtra and West Bengal.
JINDAL Power, owned by industrialist Naveen Jindal, has raised Rs 10,057 crore from a group of 23 lenders led by State Bank of India to establish a power plant at Raigarh in Chhattisgarh.
THE government will bid out at least two ultra mega power projects (UMPPs) of 4000mw each in April 2010 to make up for the slippage in power capacity addition in previous years, a senior power ministry official said.
State-owned power generating company Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd (KPCL) and Larsen & Toubro today signed a joint venture agreement for the 1,600 MW (2X800 MW) coal-based thermal power project at Godhna in Chhattisgarh.