Gandhinagar: Gujarat government has given in-principle approval for extension of 800 MW supercritical thermal power generation in three power stations of the State - Gandhinagar thermal power station, Sikka thermal power station, and Ukai thermal power station. With 800 MW addition in each of these three power stations, the installed capacity of power generation in the State will increase by 2400 MW. The state has presently 53,368 MW installed capacity that includes 24,962 MW conventional and...Read More

Jamnagar: Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd (GUVNL) has started operations of both 500-megawatt plants by sourcing foreign coal as fuel, at Sikka in Jamnagar. While power demand is growing unexpectedly amid summer this year this added generation of power is important. GUVNL has ordered 12 lakh metric tons of foreign coal for these plants. The coal will be imported from Indonesia at a price of Rs 14,000 per metric ton. The electricity demand has risen to 21,000 megawatts in summer from 18,000 mega...Read More

Jamnagar: The thermal power station in Sikka run by Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Ltd (GSEC) will possibly remain shut till Diwali due to the shortage of coal, it is learnt. The thermal power station with capacity of electricity production of 9 thousand megawatt per day in Sikka has shut down for the last one month due to the shortage of coal. Both units at this thermal power station are inoperative at present and around 350 workers working in both plants are employed in maintenance work...Read More