Coal-based Projects

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  Banks Stare At Rs 2.5 Lakh Crore New Dud Loans From Power Sector: BofA-ML

  Report is based on the fact that as much as 71 gw of private sector coal-based projects are facing bankruptcy.

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  BGR Energy Systems Bags Rs 2,789-Crore Order

  NLCI, jointly with Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd (UPRVUNL), is setting up a 1,980 MW coal-based super critical thermal power plant at Ghatampur, Uttar Pradesh through its subisidiary firm NUPPL.

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  BHEL Commissions Thermal Power Plant In Madhya Pradesh

  State-run Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) on Tuesday announced commissioning of a 600 MW coal-based thermal power plant in Madhya Pradesh.

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  Andhra Pradesh Gets Rs 1.70 Lakh Crore Investment Pledge On Day 2 Of Summit

  Australia-based Queensland Coal Corp today agreed to set up a coal-based power plant in Andhra Pradesh with an investment of over Rs 30,000 crore as the state received projects commitments worth Rs 1.70 lakh crore on the second day of CII Partnership Summit.

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  NTPC's Telangana Power Project Gets Green Nod

  The NTPC Limited is presently operating a coal-based 2,600 MW (stage-I, II & III) thermal power station at Ramagundam in Telangana's Karimnagar district and is in the process of expanding it by addition of 2x800 MW.

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  NTPC Puts 1,600 Megawatt Gajmara Project on Back-Burner

  The PSU had earlier proposed to invest over Rs 11,000 crore to set up the coal-based project at Gajmara in Odisha.

• Government to Invest Rs 1 Lakh Crore in UMPPs

  UMPP is coal-based thermal power project that has 4,000 MW generation capacity.

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  Budget 2014: Industry Welcomes Boost to Renewable Energy

  The power industry today welcomed the Budget's emphasis on renewable energy and coal-based project, saying it will give an impetus to the sector which is reeling under a crisis.

• NTPC likely to add 9,000-MW capacity by 2017: report

  NTPC, India's largest power producing firm, has lined up new projects of 19,000-MW capacity, nearly half of which would be commissioned by 2017, according to a company source.

• Environment Ministry extends moratorium in Konkan

  The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has extended its moratorium on new projects in the districts of Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg in Maharashtra. The moratorium has now been extended till December 31, 2012. The moratorium means that no new projects will be cleared in these two districts, where a large number of mining and coal-based power pro...

• NTPC to invest Rs 6,600 crore in coal-based power project

  State-run NTPC plans to invest around Rs 6,600 crore for setting up a coal-based power  project at Kanpur, on which the work is expected to start from  January 2012. The proposed 1,320-mw project is likely to come up at Bilhaur, near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. "The work on ground for the thermal power project will begin in the fi...

• Suryachakra Power Corporation Ltd - Extension of MOU with China Guodian Corporation for setting up coal-based Thermal Project

  Suryachakra Power Corporation Ltd has informed BSE that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) entered into between Suryachakra Power Corporation Ltd. (SPCL) and China Guodian Corporation (CGC) has been extended for one more year i.e., upto October 23, 2011.  The MoU was executed by the parties is for setting up 1200 MW coal-based thermal power...

• Fuelling dissent: Coal power plants

  The Maharashtra Government has been aggressively marketing the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project in Ratnagiri district. In the same area it is bringing in a huge line-up of coal-based power projects ignoring the pollution factor. The village here has large-scale cashew, mango and coconut plantations. Not unusual for any village in this region. But thi...