New Delhi: Airports-to-infrastructure conglomerate GMR is setting up a 420MW power plant of its own to meet the energy needs of Indira Gandhi International Airport's Terminal 3, estimated to rise to 250MW - or 8-9% of Delhi's current demand - in a few years from now.
GMR partners state-run Airports Authority of India in Delhi International Airports Ltd (DIAL), the joint venture that built and operates the airport. The group intends to feed the surplus power from the captive plant into the northern grid, which would boost availability in Delhi and other states in the region.
Sources said the gas-fired plant would be built at Jhajjar in Haryana. Tata Consultancy Services has prepared the project report and the generation unit would be constructed in two phases of 210MW each.
The group is in talks with the Haryana government on the issue of land and other statutory clearances. It intends to invite tenders for key plant equipment by mid-2011 and switch on generation by March 2013.
The airport now consumes around 80MW of power from the main supply grid. The demand is project to rise to 140MW in the medium term and 250MW in the long term, in step with the expansion in passenger and flight capacity.
08/03/11 Sanjay Dutta/Times of India
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