March 2025

Central power PSUs plan major investment in Chhattisgarh

Central power PSUs have announced major investment proposals in Chhattisgarh. While NTPC has outlined investment of Rs.96,000 crore, SJVN has proposed to invest Rs.9,500 crore. Both the entities have signed MoUs with Chhattisgarh state government entities Read more

hydropower

Bidding annulled for hydropower evacuation scheme in Himachal Pradesh

Bid process coordinator REC Power Development & Consultancy Ltd (RECPDCL) has annulled the bidding process for an interstate transmission system (ISTS) scheme for evacuation of upcoming hydropower projects in Himachal Pradesh. RECPDCL has scrapped the bidding Read more

Godrej Enterprises Group sees substations EPC as a key focus area

Godrej Enterprises Group views EPC of power substations as a focus area, and foresees itself as a specialized substations player in the years to come. Addressing a media roundtable in Mumbai recently, Raghavendra Mirji, Executive Vice President & Business Read more

T&D India — March 2025

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IndiGrid set to win Ratle-Kiru transmission scheme, under TBCB

IndiGrid is set to win the interstate transmission system (ISTS) scheme relating to evacuation from hydropower projects in the UT of Jammu & Kashmir, for which bidder selection is taking place through the tariff-based competitive Read more

REC inaugurates “Experience Centre” at Gurugram

REC Ltd, on March 7, 2025, inaugurated an “Experience Centre” at its headquarters at Gurugram. In a release, REC said that the inauguration was led by REC CMD Vivek Kumar Dewangan in the presence of the board of directors Read more

Transmission infrastructure addition falling short of target

The quantum of power transmission infrastructure addition is falling significantly short of target, as evinced by official statistics. Latest statistics released by Central Electricity Authority (CEA) clearly points out to the fact that addition of new power transmission infrastructure Read more

GIPCL KEC Pooling | T&D India

PGCIL wins Kurnool-III ISTS scheme in TBCB mode

Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) has won an interstate transmission system (ISTS) scheme relating to the Kurnool III Pooling Station (PS) in Andhra Pradesh, under the tariff-based competitive bidding (TBCB) Read more

ISTS scheme planned to relieve loading on Vindhyachal-Varanasi line

A new interstate transmission system (ISTS) scheme has been proposed to relieve overloading on the 765kV Vindhyachal-Varanasi line. In its latest meeting, National Committee on Transmission (NCT) has proposed to develop this scheme under the tariff-based Read more

CEA issues guidelines on usage and sharing of OPGW fibre cores

Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has newly issued comprehensive guidelines on usage and share of fibre cores associated with OPGW and UGFO cables for power system applications. These guidelines have been formulated to establish a uniform procedure for the sharing Read more