Friday, November 30, 2007

Reliance Power Ltd has been awarded a Letter of Intent for the 4,000 MW

Reliance Energy Ltd (REL) has informed that the Companys group Company, Reliance Power Ltd, on November 30, 2007 has been awarded a Letter of Intent for the 4,000 MW imported-coal based Ultra Mega Power Project at Krishnapatnam Andhra Pradesh, which will have an estimated capital outlay of Rs 20,000 crore.

This is in addition to the 4,000 MW domestic-coal based Ultra Mega Power Project at Sasan, Madhya Pradesh, involving an estimated capital outlay of about Rs 18,000 crore, which was awarded earlier this year to Reliance Power.

Reliance Powers estimated capital outlay for these two projects alone aggregates approximately Rs 40,000 crore. In addition, Reliance Energy and / or its group Companies are implementing several large infrastructure development projects, in the areas of metro railways, roads, real estate, etc.

In order to augment long term resources for the RELs contribution to Reliance Power, as well as for financing the large number of mega infrastructure projects that are being implemented by the REL group, and several others that are in the pipeline, the Board of Reliance Energy Ltd will meet on December 02, 2007 to consider proposals for raising resources by way of preferential allotment of equity and / or equity related securities, and / or long term debt, and / or other financial instruments.


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