Power

摘要

Japanese corporate giant Sumitomo Corp, Malaysia's YTL Corp Bernard and Israel Electric, along with state-run NTPC Ltd and leading domestic firms such as Tatas and Reliance are among the 17 companies in race for setting up the 4.000 Mw Andhra Pradesh ultra-mega power plant. Power Finance Corporation, the nodal agency that conducts the bidding of ultramega projects, had received 17 requests for qualification (RFQ) for the Krishnapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) project. The project is the third of the nine such large power plants which the governments has planned at a cost of Rs 15,000-20.000 crore each. The deadline for submitting RFQs for the project, which will be operated with imported coal, is September 30. The project is expected to be transferred to the selected developer by April 2007.