India

The state owned power utility  Neyveli Lignite Corporation would set up a 2,000 Mw power station at Nagapattinam district in Tamil Nadu.

India's Ministry of Environment and Forests has accorded environmental clearance to NTPC's 2x660 MW supercritical technology based Mauda Stage-II TPP. Located in the Nagpur district of Maharashtra, this project is an expansion of the under-construction 2x500 MW Stage-I TPP.

International Power will build the Uch II, an extension of the existing 572MW Uch plant in Pakistan.

ADB has agreed to lend up to $100 million to a privately owned gas-fired power plant in Pakistan. It is meant that will help alleviate chronic power shortages which are undermining growth and poverty reduction.

The fourth unit of the Kaiga power station in Karnataka, India, has been successfully connected to the power grid.

The fourth unit of the Kaiga power station in Karnataka, India, has been successfully connected to the power grid.  

India will receive $89.7million loan from the ADB for the Assam Power Sector Enhancement Programme, Tranche-II.

 

 

Vandanaa Power signed an MoU to construct a 2,400MW coal-fired power plant in Navalakhi port in Kutch district, Gujarat, India.

The state ministry has approved Atlantis Resources’ 50MW tidal power project in the Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat.

 

 

 

 

CGPL will conclude the boiler light-up for the first unit of the 4,000 MW Mundra UMPP by end of this month. It was originally scheduled on February 2011.