Energy

GSPC asks Adani to source natural gas from others

January 1, 2012
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GSPC asks Adani to source natural gas from others

Gujarat state-run integrated energy company Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) has asked Adani Gas, an Adani Group subsidiary, to source natural gas from some other sources, a GSPC official said today as per the PTI report. GSPC, is the sole supplier of natural gas to Adani Gas, a city gas distributor (CGD), operating a...

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Chinese company TBEA to set up Rs 2500 cr power equipment plant in Gujarat

May 27, 2011
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Chinese company TBEA to set up Rs 2500 cr power equipment plant in Gujarat

Top Chinese power equipment manufacturing company TBEA will set up a Rs 2,500-crore plant between Vadodara and Bharuch next to national highway No. 8, and an announcement on this was made after a high-level meeting TBEA chairman Zhang Xin had with chief minister Narendra Modi in Gandhinagar on Thursday, according to ToI report. The...

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L&T wins Rs. 1,450 crore contract from GSPC

May 18, 2011
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Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has won a prestigious offshore process platform contract from Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) valued at Rs. 1,450 crore. GSPC awarded this offshore process cum living quarter’s platform project to L&T under international competitive bidding to meet its challenging target of production of hydrocarbon by July 2013 from KG Basin,...

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GSPC hikes CNG, PNG prices

May 6, 2011
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The Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) Gas has increased the price of compressed natural gas (CNG) and piped natural gas (PNG), both for commercial and non-commercial use. This decision will affect CNG-run car and rickshaw owners, households that use PNG for cooking, and commercial customers from central and south Gujarat based industries like textile,...

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Alstom’s Gujarat unit for producing bearings unveiled in Vadodara

May 6, 2011
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Vadodara based global leader in power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure Alstom yesterday unveiled its new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for producing bearings for medium to large sized hydro power projects in India and abroad. Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde inaugurated the factory at Vadodara in Gujarat in the presence of Alstom Power...

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Reliance infra commissions Limbdi-Ranchhodpura transmission line

May 5, 2011
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Reliance Infrastructure Limited has commissioned 400KV double circuit transmission line part of the country’s first 100% privately owned transmission project on the build, own and operate basis in Gujarat’s Limbdi and Ranchhodpura passing . The 103 km long transmission line is a part of the WRSS project that has an outlay of about INR...

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ABB bags USD 18 million Wanakbori thermal power plant order

April 22, 2011
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ABB bags USD 18 million Wanakbori thermal power plant order

Leading power and automation technology group ABB has got an order from Gujarat State Electricity Company Limited (GSEL) for the renovation and modernization of control systems at 1,260 MW Wanakbori thermal power plant in Gujarat. This is worth USD 18 million order and it was booked in first quarter. Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Limited...

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Suzlon bags 50MW wind energy project from GSFC

April 20, 2011
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India’s largest wind turbine manufacturer Suzlon Group has announced the signing of an order with Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited (GSFC) to set up, operate and maintain 50.4 MW wind energy projects. The project involving 24 units of Suzlon’s S88–2.1 MW wind turbine will come up in wind farms...

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Gujarat added 1570 MW power capacities during 2010-11

April 6, 2011
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Gujarat added 1570 MW power capacities during 2010-11

Sushilkumar Shinde, union minister of power yesterday informed that in the year 2010-11, Gujarat added power generation capacities to the tune of 1570 MW, nearly 10 per cent of the total capacities added in the country during the year. Of the total capacities added during the year in Gujarat, Gujarat Industrial Power Corporation Limited...

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PDPU to establish Education Research Center in Dahej SEZ

April 1, 2011
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PDPU to establish Education Research Center in Dahej SEZ

Aiming at providing human resource in the area of Petro chemicals and power, Gandhinagar based Pandit Deendayal Petrolium University will establish India’s first Education research center in Dahej SEZ. This center will provide practical experience to the students along with their regular study. Dahej SEZ has chemicals and peto chemicals unit including a unit...

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India’s first tidal power plant to come up at Mandvi in Gujarat

March 9, 2011
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State-run power utility Gujarat Power Corporation Limited (GPCL) has narrowed down to a site in Mandvi near Gulf of Kutch for commissioning of 50 MW tidal power project according to PTI report. The tidal power project will need huge area out of any port limits along the coastline. The area also should be free...

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Rs.355 crore power transmission line completed in Kutch

January 20, 2011
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Power transmission line has been completed in Kutch at a cost of Rs.355-crore in a short duration of 36 months, in the year of golden jubilee of Gujarat, Minister of State for Energy Saurabh Patel said here today. He said that several industrial houses have expressed desire to set up their units in the...

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