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Sub: 8th Joint Co-ordination Committee Meeting for High Capacity Corridor for IPPsin Southern Region - Minutes of Meeting

Dear Sir,

The>sth meeting of Joint Co-ordination.>Cotrirriittee·· was heldon2Dd July 2012 atPOWERGRID SRTS-I, RHQ, Secunderabad •. to review the. status of generation &.transll1ission project. •In this regard,pleasefindenclosed theminut~s of meeting indicating ,theprqgress of generating projects and associated transmission systems.

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ED (ERP, SEF & CE)Copy to:

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1. Shri K S N Murthy

Vice President

Samalkot Power Limited

Camus Capri Apartments, 6-3-1090/A,

Raj Bhavan Road, Somaijiguda

Hyderabad - 500 082.

2. Shri Haziq Beg

Sr. Vice President

IL&FS Tamil Nadu Power Company Ltd.

C/O IL&FS Energy Development Co. Ltd.,

First Floor, Corporate Tower,

Ambiance Mall Complex, Ambiance Island,

NH-8, Gurgaon-122001

3. Shri S N Barde

Executive Vice President

GMR Rajahmundry Energy Limited

10th floor, D Block, IBC Knowledge,

Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore – 560 029.

4. Shri G Vijaya Kumar

COO (Thermal Projects)

PEL Power Limited

#8-2-293/82/A/76, Road No. 9A,

Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad – 500 033.

5. Shri A Sardar Mahaboob Jan

Advisor-Technical

Coastal Energen Pvt. Ltd.

7th

Floor, Buhari Towers

4, Moores Road

Chennai- 600 006.

6. Shri J Mahopatra

Director (Technical)

Ind-Barath Power (Madras) Ltd

Plot No. 30-A, Road No. 1

Film Nagar, Jubilee Hills

Hyderabad- 500 033.

7. Shri K C Middha

GM – Projects

Simhapuri Energy Private Limited

Madhucon Greenlands,

6-3-866/2, 3rd

Floor, Begumpet,

Hyderabad -500 016

8. Shri N P Hanagodu

Chief Executive Officer

Meenakshi Energy Private Ltd.

Meenakshi House, 8-2-418, Road No.7

Banjara Hills,

Hyderabad-500 034, Andhra Pradesh

9. Shri D Venkatachalam

The Director

Thermal Powertech Corpn India Limited

6-3-1090, B-1, TSR Towers, Rajbhavan

Road, Somajiguda, Hyderabad – 500 082

10. Shri M.V.S Subba Raju

Director

NCC Power Projects Limited

6th

Floor, NCC House, Madhapur,

Hyderabad – 500 081.

11. Shri Rajesh Kumar Shahi

AVP

PFC Consulting Ltd.

First Floor, "Urjanidhi"

1, Barakhamba Lane, Connaught Place

New Delhi - 110 001.

12. Shri V. K. Singh

Addl. CEO

REC Transmission Projects Company Ltd.

Core-IV, SCOPE Complex, 7, Lodhi Road

New Delhi - 110 003.

13. Shri B. N. Murthy

Managing Director

VSF Projects Limited

Plot no. 89/A, Aiswarya Sagar Society

Road No. 2, Banjara Hills

Hyderabad – 500 034.

14. Shri R. Arivu Chelvan

Associate Vice President

Dandelion Properties Private Limited

10th Floor, ‘D’ Block, IBC Knowledge Park,

Bannerghatta Road,

Bangalore – 560 029.

15. Shri Suryanarayan R

GM - Project Development

Regen Powertech Private Limited

28/11 College Road

Chennai - 600 006.

16. Shri R Sudheer

Technical Director

Surana Power Limited

No: 29, Whites Road, 2nd floor,

Royapettah, Chennai – 600 014.

17. Shri K L Narayana

General Manager

RVK Energy (Rajahmundry) Pvt. Ltd.

6-3-1109/A/1, 3rd Floor

Navabharath Chambers, Rajbhavan Road

Somajiguda, Hyderabad - 500 082.

18. Shri B. Narasimha Rao,

Vice President (Projects)

East Coast Energy Private Limited, #7-1-24, B Block, 5th Floor,

Roxana Towers, Green Lands, Begumpet,

Hyderabad- 500 016

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Minutes of 8th

Meeting of Joint Co-ordination Committee for IPPs in Southern region

held on 2nd

July 2012 at POWERGRID Office in Hyderabad

1. List of participants is given at Annexure – I.

2. ED (SEF & CE), POWERGRID welcomed the representatives of IPP generation

developers of Vemagiri area & Krishnapatnam area in Andhra Pradesh, Tuticorin area &

Nagapattinam/Cuddalore area in Tamil Nadu and other IPP developers granted

Connectivity/LTA in Southern Region. He stated that after about 2 years of grant of Long

Term Access / Connectivity the status requirement has graduated from mere availability

of various clearances to actual physical status at site.

3. ED (SR-I), welcomed all the participants to the new office building of SR-I Regional

Head Quarter. He informed that works on almost all the High Capacity Corridors have

been initiated and the matching progress is required from the generation developers also

to avoid any mismatches.

4. DGM (Engg-SEF), POWERGRID informed that in the present meeting 16 numbers of

applicants have been invited. He proposed to discuss the status of generation &

transmission area wise. Towards this the discussion was started from Krishnapatnam area.

4.1 Krishnapatnam Area, AP

a. In the Krishnapatnam area, 4 nos of IPPs had signed BPTA viz. Simhapuri Energy

Private Limited (SEPL) – 600 MW, Meenakshi Energy Private Limited (MEPL) –

1000 MW, Thermal Powertech Corporation India Limited (TPCIL) – 1320 MW

and NCC Power Projects Limited (1320 MW). Further VSF Projects Limited (360

MW) has been granted connectivity at Nellore Pooling station.

b. POWERGRID informed that implementation of the “Common System associated

with ISGS projects in Krishnapatnam area of Andhra Pradesh” is under progress

and the completion schedule is September, 2014 as per the BPTA signed earlier.

Further the Kurnool 765/400 kV substation and its connectivity is also taken up

along with the transmission system for IPP projects in Krishnapatnam area and the

implementation is under progress.

c. Representative of MEPL informed that the construction of their generation project

is under progress. He informed that Unit-I (150MW) is already synchronized with

the grid and Unit-II (150 MW) is expected by August/September, 2012. For the

phase-II comprising of Unit-3&4 of 350 MW each, the contracts have already

been awarded & pilling work for boiler & STG have been completed. The units

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are anticipated to be commissioned by September, 2013 & December, 2013

respectively. As regard the availability of fuel it was informed that FSA for 70 %

with MCL is to signed shortly and balance 30% imported coal the arrangements

are already in-place.

d. Representative of TPCIL submitted detailed status report for their 2x660 MW

generation project as per which the commissioning schedule is revised to May,

2014 & August, 2014 from earlier January, 2014 & April, 2014 respectively.

Present status of Bolier & Turbine are as below

� Boiler (Unit # 1 & 2) Fabrication of Boiler Steel structures and Air Preheater

has been completed and delivered

� Fabrication works for Super heater coils, reheater coils, de-super heater,

economizer system are under progress

� Turbine (Unit-I) – Fabrication work for LP and HIP Cylinder, Frame, Bearing

and Valve are under progress

� Turbine (Unit-II) – Raw material preparation works for LP and HIP cylinder,

MS Piping DEH, TSI, ETS and Oil system, frame are under progress

Representative of TPCIL requested that they would require startup power from

July, 2013 instead of May, 2013 as informed earlier. Towards this POWERGRID

informed that as per the BPTA signed with TPCIL for implementation of

connectivity transmission line the schedule is May, 2014, however, as covered

under the Transmission Agreement dated 23.11.2011 the requirement of TPCIL

can be attempted to be met on best efforts basis.

e. Representative of NCC Power Projects Ltd. informed that all the statutory

clearances & permission for the project have already been obtained. Physical

possession of the land required for the project & site leveling and grading have

been completed. He submitted detailed status report for their 2x660 MW

generation project as per which the commissioning schedule is March, 2015 &

June, 2015 respectively. He also informed that 1250 of 2240 working piles have

been completed and works in BTG area are under progress. It was also informed

that work on other infrastructure related works is progress as per schedule.

f. Representative of VSF informed that their project capacity is 350 MW and the

commissioning scheduled is revised to July, 2015 from June, 2014 as informed

earlier. It is also informed that in-principle sanction obtained from Power Finance

Corporation Ltd., however financial closure is yet to achieved which is expected

to be done by July, 2012. On enquiry it was informed that EPC Contract for DTG

& BOP is under process & shall be awarded shortly as few contactors have

already identified. About fuel tie-up it was informed that they have power tolling

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JCC Meeting held on 02.07.2012

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arrangement with PTC for the coal. As such there is no physical progress on the

project site.

Regarding connectivity line POWERGRID informed that since project capacity is

less than 500 MW, the same has to be implemented by the VSF. Therefore he

suggested that timely action towards various statutory clearances required for the

same should also be under taken.

g. No representative from SEPL attended the meeting, however as informed earlier

Unit-I & II of 150 MW each had already been commissioned and Unit-III & IV of

150 MW each is scheduled for commissioning by November, 2012.

4.2 Srikakulam Area, AP

a. POWERGRID representative informed that in this area only one IPP viz. East

Coast Energy Pvt. Ltd. (1320 MW) had remained as environment clearance of

other IPP were revoked. As regards the transmission system investment approval

has already been obtained for Part-A which include establishment of Srikakulam

pooling station & Srikakulam – Angul 765kV D/c line and implementation works

shall start shortly which is scheduled for completion by June, 2015 as per revised

annexure of BPTA signed.

b. Representative of East-coast informed that works for implementation has already

resumed after MoEF has rescinded its work suspension order of generation

project, as all other necessary statutory clearances are in place. He informed that

Unit-I is scheduled for commissioning by November, 2014 and requested for

commissioning of the associated transmission system by same time frame. Upon

this POWERGRID representative informed that the works for implementation

shall commence shortly which shall commission by June, 2015 however

POWERGRID will make best efforts to match the transmission system with the

commissioning of generation project.

c. As regards progress of the work it was informed that piling work for Chimney &

Boiler area have already been completed and Pile cap is under progress.

d. Representative of East Coast enquired about the status of availability of land for

the Srikakulam pooling station. It was informed by POWERGRID that the

proposal for secition-4(1) notification in is secretariat and being pursued actively.

The representative of East Coast delivered copy of the letter for use of spare land

available with them for establishment of pooling station. ED (SR-I),

POWERGRID informed that the site selection for locating new substation is done

by a committee taking into consideration various standard parameters, in case of

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Srikakulam also site has been selected after carefully considering more than 20

sites.

4.3 Vemagiri Area, AP

a. In the Vemagiri area, Samalkot Power Limited (earlier Reliance Infrastructure

Limited) (2400 MW), Spectrum Power Generation Limited (1400 MW) and GMR

Rajahmundry Energy Limited (768 MW) were granted LTA, who have signed

BPTA and furnished requisite BG. Further, Connectivity/LTA has been granted

to RVK Energy (Rajahmundry) Private Limited (360 MW).

b. POWERGRID representative informed that the investment approval has already

been obtained for establishment of Vemagiri pooling station & LILO of

Gazuwaka – Vijayawada 400kV S/c line at Vemagiri pooling station and

implementation works are under progress which is scheduled for completion by

June, 2014.

c. POWERGRID representative further informed that as per the decision of the 29th

meeting of the Empowered Committee on Transmission, POWERGRID & CEA

officials made a joint visit to the IPPs generation projects to get first hand

information on the status of generation projects on 30th

June and 1st July. Based on

the visit following was emerged, however the detailed report is placed at

Annexure-II

� Samalkot Power Ltd. has plans to setup 2400 MW in the present phase of

development comprising of 3 modules (2 GTs + 1 ST) of 800 MW each,

though there is a space provision for enhancing the capacity by additional 2

modules of similar capacity.

� Out of these 2 GTs (250 MW each) has already been synchronized once and is

presently idle for want of gas allocation. Further, 2 nos GTs has completed

Full Speed No Load (FSNL) test and is planned for synchronization as per

schedule by August, 2012.

� The construction of dedicate lines from switchyard to Vemagiri-II Pooling

station has also been commenced.

� GMR Rajahmundry Energy Limited has plans to setup 768 MW in the

present phase of development comprising of 2 modules (1 GT + 1 ST) of 384

MW each.

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� First module is synchronized with the grid and second module is waiting for

permission for diversion of gas to carry out synchronization test.

� Entire switchyard including Bus reactor have also been test charged.

� Spectrum Power Generation Ltd has plans to augment the existing capacity

by 1400 MW gas based generation project.

� However during the visit it was informed that the placement of award for BTG

& BoP were about to be made when non-availability of gas for coming 3-4

years was notified by the Govt.. After that all the activities have been put on

hold. In fact SPGL had requested POWERGRID to cancel the earlier signed

BPTA/TSA and return their Bank Guarantee.

� RVK Energy Limited informed that in Phase-III, 360 MW of plant was

proposed for which Connectivity was granted by POWERGRID as the project

developer had most of the necessary clearances available.

� However in view of non-availability of Gas even for the existing project, no

physical activity has been observed for the phase-III project.

d. From the site visit of above 4 number of Gas based IPP generation projects, it was

seen that GMR project of 768 MW is already completed and Samalkot project of

2400 MW is partially completed. Therefore these two projects with a cumulative

capacity of about 3200 MW is likely to be available with good certainty.

e. Commissioning of the balance two projects viz. SPGL & RVK with cumulative

capacity of 1760 MW shall depend on availability of gas and till that time shall

remain uncertain.

4.4 Tuticorin Area, TN

a. POWERGRID representative informed that the implementation works for the

associated transmission system is under advance stage of implementation and

Part-A & B is scheduled for completion by July, 2014 & December, 2014

respectively.

b. The representative of CEPL indicated that the progress of generation project

(2x600MW) is satisfactory. The Boiler for the Unit-I has already been tested and

drawl of start-up power is expected by November, 2012 & the COD is expected

by February/March, 2013. as regards the implementation of dedicated

transmission line he thanked POWERGRID regional office for excellent support

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they are receiving. He informed that out of the 32 foundations 27 have already

been casted. Similarly 21 numbers of Towers have already been erected. He did

not anticipated any problem on account of transmission line.

c. The representative of IBPML submitted status of their generation project (2x660

MW). He informed that they have fuel allocation for Unit-I of 660 MW from

MCL. Further he informed that BTG, ACC and BOP has already been awarded

and all the statutory clearances have already been obtained. Further survey for the

dedicated line upto Tuticorin pooling station is under progress.

4.5 Nagapattinam/Cuddalore Area, TN

a. In the Nagapattinam/Cuddalore area, 2 nos of IPPs had signed BPTA on 24th

December, 2010 viz. IL&FS Tamil Nadu Power Company Ltd. (1200 MW) &

PEL Power Ltd. (1320 MW) and furnished requisite BG.

b. POWERGRID representative informed that IL&FS had signed TSA with BPC

coordinator for the associated transmission system which is being implemented

through TBCB route. However PEL Power is repeatedly seeking extension as they

have not got “Consent For Establishment” (CFE) from Tamil Nadu Pollution

Control Board. He further informed that recently National Green Tribunal (NGT)

has suspended Environment Clearance (EC) of IL&FS Tamil Nadu Power

Company Ltd. and directed to carry out Cumulative Environment Impact

Assessment study for the entire region. NGT further directed MoEF for revision

of EC of IL&FS with additional conditions, if any.

c. Representative of IL&FS informed that they have already presented Rapid

Cumulative Environment Impact Assessment study before Expert Appraisal

Committee of MoEF on 25.06.2012 and they expect the revocation of suspension

of EC shortly. He also informed that they have made the submission to CERC in

regard to the Petition filed by POWERGRID about uncertainty of the generation

project. As regards status of generation project it was informed that EPC award

for complete plant is placed, the project is based on 100% imported coal from

Indonesia, all statutory clearances viz. CFE from TNPCB already obtained also

they have received approval under Section-68 from Govt. of India for

implementation of dedicated transmission line and route alignment is under

progress. However as directed by NGT presently no civil construction is being

carried out at the site.

d. Representative of PEL Power however informed that they had initiated various

steps and spent substantial amount to implement the project as per schedule. They

were also successful in mobilizing all the required infrastructure viz., land, water,

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fuel etc. and also all the required statutory clearances are in place. However they

could not proceed ahead with project construction work as Tamil Nadu Pollution

Control Board (TNPCB) has not yet granted Consent For Establishment. In view

of this they are placed in a critical situation for reasons beyond their control as far

as the implementation of the generation project is concerned.

4.6 Regen Power Pvt. Ltd. (600 MW)

a. POWERGRID representative informed that Regen Power Pvt. Ltd. (600 MW)

wind based generation developer was granted connectivity at Pugalur substation

through Regen pooling station – Pugalur 230kV D/c (Twin Mosse) line. The

connectivity transmission line is being implemented by the developer as per their

request.

b. Representative from Regen informed that the wind project commissioning is

scheduled Phase-I (300MW) for March, 2014 and Phase-II for December, 2014.

he also informed that they have installed 8 wind masts in Vagarai to understand

the wind flow in this region. All the masts are of 85m height and have multilevel

measurement, giving a comfort for better understanding. From the measured data,

it is observed that the predominant wind direction is from west and the main wind

season is from April to September. More than 250 Locations are already acquired

and remaining under process.

c. The wind turbine of 1.5 MW each, totaling 400 numbers will be erected in an area

spread some 15Km from centre of the wind farm, encompassing the villages of

Tirupur district.

d. He further informed that following statutory clearances have already been

obtained

� In principal approval received from TANGEDCO for WEG locations and

Substations

� 150 WEG Locations (225 MW) Registered at TANGEDCO, balanced

under process

� CWET Certificate for one Wind Mast received, for 3 wind masts

certification is under process

4.7 Surana Power Limited (350 MW)

a. POWERGRID representative informed that Surana Power Ltd. (350 MW) Captive

generator was granted connectivity at Raichur (New) substation through

Generation switchyard – Raichur 400kV D/c line. Regarding connectivity line

POWERGRID informed that since project capacity is less than 500 MW, the same

has to be implemented by the Surana Power. Therefore he suggested that timely

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action towards various statutory clearances required for the same should also be

under taken.

b. Representative from Surana Power informed that they have received all the

statutory clearances including Consent For Establishment (CFE) from Karnataka

State Pollution Control Board. He further informed that

o 70% of the general civil works under Power Block has been completed

o Boiler drum for Unit-I has been installed on 10th

May, 2012

o Chimney shell has been casted

o Route survey completed for power evacuation line

5. The meeting ended with vote of thanks to the participants.

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JCC Meeting held on 02.07.2012

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List of participants of the 8th

Meeting of Joint Co-ordination Committee for IPPs in

Southern Region held on 2nd

July 2012 at POWERGRID Office in Hyderabad

Sl. No. Name and Organization Designation

Central Electricity Authority

1. Ravinder Gupta Director

Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (POWERGRID)

2. Pankaj Kumar Executive Director (ERP, SEF & CE)

3. V. Shekhar Executive Director (SRTS-I)

4. R. Y. Rao GM (O&M), SRTS-I

5. S. Ravi AGM (SSC-Engg.), SRTS-I

6. Dilip Rozekar DGM (Engg-SEF), CC

7. Anjali Banga CM (Comml.), CC

Long-term Access Applicants

8. P V S Sayan Meenakshi Energy Pvt. Ltd.

9. Prem Chand Meenakshi Energy Pvt. Ltd.

10. Neelesh Nema GMR Energy Ltd.

11. B L Prasad National SEZ Infra Services Pvt. Ltd.

12. V L Dua ITPCL

13. G Vijayaraghava Surana power Ltd.

14. R Sudheer Surana power Ltd.

15. K Anant Kumar Surana power Ltd. / PRDC

16. P S Jagannatha Surana power Ltd. / PRDC

17. T V Rao Ind-Barath Power (Madras) Limited

18. Suryanarayan R Regen Powertech Pvt. Ltd.

19. Neeraj Singh Gautam Regen Powertech Pvt. Ltd.

20. Rojaprasanna Ch. VSF Projects Ltd.

21. P Naresh Kumar VSF Projects Ltd.

22. Kedar Guttikar Thermal Powertech Corpn. India Ltd.

23. Rajashekhar M Thermal Powertech Corpn. India Ltd.

24. Anirudha Divekar Thermal Powertech Corpn. India Ltd.

25. Anil Kumar Asthana Samalkot Power Ltd.

26. G Ravinder Samalkot Power Ltd.

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2~thMeetingot~Il1Po""ered~olllll1ittee;()lltl'aIlSDlission ~ Joint visit of CEA &CTU to assess the generationproject progress inVemagiri Area.

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Report of Site Visit to the IPPs generation Projects in Vemagiri Area

In the 29th

meeting of the Empowered Committee on transmission held on June 15, 2012 at

New Delhi, it was decided that a team of CEA and POWERGRID officials would visit the

IPPs generation projects sites in Vemagiri area to get first hand information on the status of

generation projects. Accordingly, following officials of CEA and POWERGRID visited

generation project sites of various IPPs in Vemagiri area on 30th

June and 1st July 2012.

POWERGRID CEA

Sh. Pankaj Kumar, ED (SEF,CE, ERP & IT) Sh. Ravinder Gupta, Director

Sh. Dilip Rozekar, DGM (Engg.-SEF)

Sh. P. S. R. Yadav, Ch. Manager (Vemagiri)

Sh. Srinivas Rao, Sr. Engr (Vemagiri)

Sh. Satyanarayan, Engr (Vemagiri)

Following generation sites, which have availed LTA/Connectivity, in the Vemagiri area were

visited

Sl.

No

Name of the Project Installed

Capacity (MW)

LTA/Connectivity

Quantum (MW)

1 Samalkot Power Project 2400 2200

2 GMR Rajahmundry Energy Limited 768 775

3 RVK Energy Limited 360 360

4 Spectrum Power Generation Ltd 1400 1350

1. Samalkot Power Project Ltd.

� There is a existing 220 MW gas based generating station which is connected to AP

State grid through 220kV lines.

� Samalkot has planned to setup 2400 MW in the present phase of development

comprising of 3 modules (2 GTs + 1 ST) of 800 MW each, though there is a space

provision for enhancing the capacity by additional 2 modules of similar capacity.

� It has been informed that 2 GTs (250 MW each) has already been synchronized once

and is presently idle for want of gas allocation. Further, 2 nos GTs has completed Full

Speed No Load (FSNL) test and as per schedule is planned for synchronization by

August, 2012.

� It has been observed that physical work for 1st Steam turbine has been commenced

and has been scheduled for synchronization test by March, 2013

� The 400kV GIS switchyard has 23 nos. of bays out of which 16 nos. of bays have

already been erected and work on balance 7 nos. of bays is under progress which is

scheduled for commissioning in next 2-3 months.

� The construction of dedicated lines from switchyard to Vemagiri-II Pooling station

has also been commenced and about 20 nos. of towers out of 39 nos. for line-1 has

been completed.

� General observation – the worked at the generation was observed to be going on full

swing with number of large cranes deployed at the project site. It was informed that

about 1000-1200 workers are presently working at site and construction work is going

on as per schedules.

� The photographs of the site is given at Annexure – I.

2. GMR Rajahmundry Energy Limited

� There is a existing 380 MW generating station (1 GT + 1 ST) which is connected by a

400kV D/c line to existing Vemagiri substation of APTRANSCO.

� GMR has plans to setup 768 MW in the present phase of development comprising of

2 modules (1 GT + 1 ST) of 384 MW each.

� Proposed GTG#2 & STG#2 were synchronized with the grid in Aug. 2011 & Dec,

2011 respectively. Similarly GTG#3 & STG#3 have also completed first fire and

FSNL test and waiting for permission for diversion of gas to carry out

synchronization test.

� Entire switchyard including Bus reactor have also been test charged.

� It was informed that 400 kV dedicated line to Vemagiri Pooling Station of Powergrid

would be completed by July 2012.

� The photographs of the site is given at Annexure – I.

3. RVK Energy Limited

� Presently there is 37 MW of Gas Engines (like DG sets that run on Gas instead of diesel).

These Gas Engines comprise of 3 nos. of new units of 9 MW each and 3 nos. of 3.25

MW each shifted from their project at Machilipattnam.

� It was informed that since erection these units have not been operated due to non-

availability of Gas.

� In the second phase additional 37 MW Gas Engines had been planned and their

foundation has been constructed but it was not pursued further due to non-availability

of gas.

� In the Phase-III, 360 MW of plant was proposed for which Connectivity was granted

by POWERGRID as the project developer had most of the necessary clearances

available.

� However in view of non-availability of Gas, no physical activity has been observed at

site for the phase-III project.

� The photographs of the site is given at Annexure – I.

4. Spectrum Power Generation Ltd. (SPGL)

� Presently there is existing 208 MW generating station which is connected to AP State

grid through 220kV lines. It was informed that for past some time the plant is running

at very less PLF due to limited availability of Gas.

� In the present phase of development, SPGL has planned to augment the existing

capacity by 1400 MW gas based generation project.

� It was informed that the placement of award for BTG & BoP were about to be made

when non-availability of gas for coming 3-4 years was notified by the Govt. After that

all the activities have been put on hold. In fact SPGL had requested POWERGRID to

cancel the earlier signed BPTA/TSA and return their Bank Guarantee.

� The team did not observe any activity going on at site towards implementation of the

proposed augmentation of the generation project.

5. Conclusion

� From the site visit of above 4 number of Gas based IPP generation projects, it was

seen that GMR project of 768 MW is already completed and Samalkot project of 2400

MW is partially completed. Therefore, these two projects with a cumulative capacity

of about 3200 MW is likely to be available with good certainty.

� Commissioning of the balance two projects viz. SPGL & RVK with cumulative

capacity of 1760 MW shall depend on availability of gas and till that time uncertainty

about these projects would remain.

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Annexure – I

GMR Rajahmundry Energy Limited

Module - 2 Module - 3 Entrance

Existing

Switchyard

New

Switchyard

Gas Turbine – Modulle - 3 Steam Turbine – Modulle

New Switchyard

Existing Vemagiri Pooling station of

APTRANSCO as visible from new GMR

switchyard

Samalkot Power Project Ltd

Entrance Gas Module under construction

GT Module already completed

GIS Control Room GIS Switchyard

Cooling Towers

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