Techno Electric’s Simran Wind Projects achieves financial closure for 100MW wind energy generation

20 Jun 2011 Evaluate

Techno Electric & Engineering Company (TEECL) has achieved financial closure for the first phase of 100MW wind energy generation project in Tamil Nadu. Simran Wind Project, a wholly owned subsidiary of TEECL has bought in International finance Corporation (IFC), the investment arm of the World Bank as major investor.

IFC has made total investments of $35 million, which is a mix of debt and equity wherein equity investments by IFC is $5 million, which translates into 3.38% stake in Simran Wind Projects. The remaining $30 million comes in the form of debt. With this deal, TEECL’s stake in Simran Wind will reduce to 96.62%. Along with IFC, leading foreign banks Standard Chartered Bank & DBS Bank are financing the project in the form of debt by investing $30 million and $20 million respectively. TEECL will be contributing $48.33 million (Rs 218 crore) in the equity portion.

The agreements were signed by TEECL which marked the financial closure of Phase I. The total project cost for generating 100MW of wind energy is $133.33 million (Rs 600 crore). Total debt financing amounts to $80 million (Rs 360 crore) and equity investment amounts to $53.33 million (Rs 240 crore). The debt-equity ratio for the project stands at 60:40, with Simran Wind Projects valued at $148 million approximately.

Out of the total 100MW, Simran Wind Projects has already commissioned 37.5MW compromising of 18 wind turbine generator of 15MW each and 5 wind turbine generator of 2.1Mw each. All 37.5Mw are in a Power Purchase Agreement with the Tamil Nadu Generation & Distribution Company (TANGEDCO) under the REC scheme. Out of 37.5MW, 27.95MW has been registered for REC mechanism and the remaining 9.55Mw are expected to be registered very soon. Simran Wind Projects is set to commission the entire 100MW of the project by mid July, 2011.  

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