Secretary (Coal) Anil Kumar Jain reviewed the progress of a coal-based supercritical thermal power plant, Neyveli Uttar Pradesh Power Ltd (NUPPL), coming up at an estimated cost of Rs. 17,000 crore in Kanpur Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh. The plant is a joint venture of NLC India Ltd and Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd.

BHEL has secured an order for the supply of 32 reactor header assemblies from Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. The order is under NPCIL’s fleet mode procurement for indigenously-developed 700 MWe Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors to be set up at four locations in the country.

BHEL has bagged orders valued at Rs. 3,200 crore for electro-mechanical works for a Hydro Electric Project in Andhra Pradesh and E&M works of pump-motor sets for lift irrigation schemes in Telangana.

The firm has inaugurated a smart motor manufacturing facility at Ahmednagar in Maharashtra. This is the companys seventh manufacturing facility, spread over an area of 4,200 sq m. It will manufacture smart electric motors from 75 kW to 1000 kW.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the revised cost estimate of the North Eastern Region Power System Improvement Project (NERPSIP) at an estimated cost of Rs. 6,700 crore, which will help strengthen intra-state transmission and distribution systems. The scheme is being implemented through Powergrid Corp.

Nearly 12,000 street lights in the city will be replaced with solar-powered lights this year. New Delhi-based Energy Efficiency Services Ltd is preparing a project report for this. Existing street lights of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation have to be removed for a World Bank-funded power supply project

The company board has approved capital expenditure of approximately Rs. 207 crore towards purchase of land and will further incur approximately Rs. 170 crore towards construction, municipal charges, taxes and for other approvals for construction of corporate office of about 1,79,000 sq ft at Santacruz, Mumbai.

Headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, the world’s largest manufacturer of thin film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules proposes to establish a solar module manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu. The investment in the facility is Rs. 4,185 crore and it has an employment potential for about 1,076 persons.

L&T Constructions Power Transmission and Distribution Business secured a package to provide electrical & mechanical systems for tunnels in the Udhampur Srinagar Baramulla rail link project. The the package includes 33kV & 11 kV HT power cable network, GIS substation, DG sets, tunnel lighting, ventilation firefighting systems and SCADA system.