Power Grid Corporation of India will be competing for a domestic contract with Indian and foreign rivals for the first time since its inception. The corporation will bid for the Rs. 1,300-crore contract, the first after the government in January made it mandatory for state-run companies to compete with private firms for securing power projects. 

PowerGrid has the monopoly over electricity transmission in the country. The company owns and operates about 45% of interstate transmission systems. The government has decided that future inter-state transmission system schemes would be built by private sector entities. Twenty-eight companies, including Reliance Power, Sterlite Energy, Larsen & Toubro, GMR Energy, Lanco Infratech and JSW Energy, have bid for the project.

At least five foreign companies, including China’s State Grid Corporation and Spain’s Elecnor, Isolux, Instalaciones Inabensa and Cobra Instalaciones, have submitted technical bids. The contract received a good response despite tighter eligibility norms for bidding. The government had about three months ago revised bidding norms for transmission projects.crackcrack

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