Overview

• BSPGCL issued the Letter of Award for a 25-year supply on behalf of NBPDCL and SBPDCL, with a Power Supply Agreement to follow.
• Adani won the tariff-based bid with a quoted price of ₹6.075 per kWh.
• Electricity will come from a new 3×800 MW ultra-supercritical plant at Pirpainti to be developed on a DBFOO/DBFOM basis.
• Fuel will be provided through a coal linkage arranged under Para B(IV) of the SHAKTI policy.
• The company estimates about $3 billion in investment and cites 10,000–12,000 jobs during construction and roughly 3,000 in operations.