11 shortlisted for Jewargi project

PROJECTSTODAY: THE Power Company of Karnataka Ltd has shortlisted 11 bidders who responded to the RfQ for setting up a 1,320-mw coal-based power project at Jewargi in Gulbarga district of the state. RfP for the project will be invited shortly. The power plant will be spread over 2,000 acres of land and will be developed on BOO basis. It will have two units of 660 mw each. Somat Engineering, Inc. of Michigan, USA, has prepared the environmental and geotechnical study; Feedback Ventures is the consultant for the project.

Meanwhile, Power Company of Karnataka's 1,000-mw Mysore- Chamlapuram power project has been kept on hold due to objections from the locals.

Published in Projectmonitor Issue date (27 October 2008)