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CHENNAI-BASED BGR Energy Systems has secured a Rs 4,900-crore EPC contract from Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadam Ni-gam for its 2x600 MW Kalisindh Thermal power project at Jhalawar in Rajasthan. This greenfield project is perhaps the largest engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract in the country. The scope of the project includes design, engineering, supply of boiler and steam turbine generator, BGR Energy CMD B G Raghupathy said.

Resolves to avoid power cuts between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m No power stations suffered from coal shortage Cabinet pins hopes on forecast of rain HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet on Wednesday decided against imposing power cuts on domestic/commercial sectors at night and to postpone stoppage of generation by the Simhadri project's second unit for its annual overhauling, as planned by the NTPC.

Chennai, July 16: BGR Energy Systems has bagged engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) from Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam to construct 2 x 600 MW thermal power plant. Stating that the new plants will come in Jhalawar, Rajasthan B G Raghupathy, chairman and managing director, BGR Energy said that the size of the deal is around Rs 4,900 crore. The project will be done in two phases, Unit I will commence its operation in 39 months, while Unit II will start its operation in 42 months.

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AGITATED by the lack of transparency in the functioning of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), 100 people, mostly farmers, on Tuesday sought clarifications under the Right to Information (RTI) Act from the District Environmental Engineer's office.
"TNPCB has consistently treated citizens as trouble-makers and enemies, and has gone out of its way to support polluters,' they alleged.

B.S. Satish Kumar BANGALORE: The power shortage assumed crisis proportions in Karnataka on Monday. Depletion of storage at hydel resources and technical snag at a generating unit at the Raichur Thermal Power Station have aggravated the problem. The power utilities resorted to unscheduled loadshedding throughout the State, including Bangalore, to make up for the power shortage. Many areas in Bangalore faced loadshedding varying from 90 minutes to two hours during peak demand while the loadshedding was even more in the remaining parts of the State.

Pakistan could have avoided the adverse effects of the high cost of petroleum products including petrol, diesel and furnace oil, if it had avoided over reliance on petroleum based products for generating thermal power and had instead given encouragement to use indigenously produced coal in power generation, reports UPP correspondent. The conversion of the Pakistan Railways to diesel engines instead of coal engines resulted in growing use of diesel by the railways and the discarding of coal for running railway engines while in India nearly 50 percent of railway engines still run on coal.

In the last four years, power generation from thermal power units of the State have fallen down. In the earlier regime of Congress, 14560 million unit of electricity was generated from thermal units, but during the last four year rule of Bharatiya Janata Party government, various thermal units of the State could manage to generate 14460 million units, alleged KK Mishra, Pradesh Congress committee spokesperson in a press statement issued here Wednesday.

Co Ties Up Fuel Linkages, Plans JV With Kolkata Co For Project

Vijayawada, July 1: India's first power plant using IGCC (integrated gasification combined cycle) technology is being constructed at Vijayawada thermal power station. Setting the stone for this 125 megawatt (MW) capacity power plant, the Union minister of state for commerce and power, Mr Jairam Ramesh here on Tuesday said the project has major implications for India's energy strategy that has to take seriously the international concerns on global warming arising out of increasing use of coal.