The government has decided to set up 20 new plants with a generation capacity of 3,551 megawatt electricity by 2014 to meet the growing demand in the country.

As per the decision, 20 power plants would be built under short-term and long-term plans in both public and private sectors.

JAIPUR: Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadan Nigam has appointed a private firm, Tata Consulting Engineers, of Bangalore as consultant for designing and engineering of the four super critical units to be established at the super thermal power stations at Chhabra in Baran district and Suratgarh in Sriganganagar district.

Federal Minister for Water and Power, Raja Pervez Ashraf said that the allocation of more than Rs 100 billion in the budget 2009-10 for ongoing and new projects was a good sign for future of the country especially for ensuring provision of electricity to all.

The first unit expected to go on stream by October 2010

A GREAT EFFORT: A boiler drum that was erected at Vallur Thermal power project in Chennai on Tuesday.

CHENNAI: The lifting and erection of a 216-tonne boiler drum at a height of 72 metres by BHEL marked the crossing of the first milestone for the 1,500-MW Vallur Thermal Power project on Tuesday.

Ravish Tiwari Posted: Thursday , Jun 04, 2009 at 0344 hrs IST

New Delhi: In his first meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after he was sworn in for the second time, Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan has raised the issue of supply of coal to the thermal power plants in his state.

Gunjan Pradhan Sinha Posted: Wednesday, Jun 03, 2009 at 0006 hrs IST

M. Ramesh

Chennai, June 1 The bumper May generation from windmills and biomass plants in the State could not contain Tamil Nadu Electricity Board

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday underscored the need for using environment-friendly state-of-the-art technology in extracting coal from Barapukuria coalmine so that local villagers do not suffer any kind of loss from soil subsidence.

Share In Power Generated By Thermal Plants To Be Commissioned After Jan 2011 May Increase To 35-50%
Subhash Narayan NEW DELHI

Given the current developments in the natural gas sector, especially with the Petronet LNG terminal under implementation in Kochi and scheduled to become operational by 2011, it looks more prudent to think of a gas-based thermal power plant at Kasargod, instead of the proposed coal-based one, says an expert in the field.