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GMR Energy's 2 power plants awarded gas allocation

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Last Updated : Sep 18 2015 | 10:01 AM IST

In Andhra Pradesh

GMR Energy announced that two of its gas based plants - GMR Vemagiri Power Generation (GVPGL) and GMR Rajahmundry Energy (GREL) - in Andhra Pradesh have been awarded allocation of gas through a fresh round of e-bidding conducted by the Government of India, on 15 September 2015. This was the second round of bidding under the Scheme for Utilization of Stranded Gas based power Plants, launched by GoI in March 2015.

These two plants, with total capacity of 1138 MW, now can operate over the next six months starting October, 2015 at equivalent to 50% Plant Load Factor (PLF) - up from 25% PLF in the previous round.

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First Published: Sep 18 2015 | 9:12 AM IST

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