Reliance Industries to foray into power; plans mega investment

21 Jun 2010 Evaluate

Reliance Industries Ltd has formally announced its plans in AGM to enter the power business. The company will bid for ultra mega power projects (UMPPs) as the power business was a natural and synergistic extension of its energy portfolio. Power is the second major sector (after telecom), that RIL plans to enter following the termination of the non-compete agreement between RIL and the ADAG group.

The new agreement (between RIL and RNRL) opens up the full range of power business for Reliance, except non-captive power plants until 2022. This paves the way for Reliance to participate in the whole value chain of power business, spanning generation, transmission and distribution. RIL is drawing up specific plans for mega investments in this sector with clean coal-based power generation projects, hydel projects and also in nuclear power as and when it is opened up. RIL will bid for all the UMPPs and in the next few months.

Besides entry into new sectors, RIL will also expand its petrochemical and polyester businesses. The company is creating a 1.4-million-tonne paraxylene capacity at Jamnagar and setting up an off-gas cracker plant with over 1.5 million tonnes per annum of olefins capacity. RIL will also build one of the largest coke gasification facilities in the world.

In the next five years, the total investment in all the new polyester and petrochemical manufacturing facilities will be the largest in this sector to be made anywhere in the world at any given point of time. In polyester, RIL will create the single largest capacity addition in the history of the company, he said. It includes a 2.3-MT PTA facility, a 5.4-lakh tonne polyethylene terephthalate complex at Gandhar and a 3.6-lakh tonne PFY facility at Silvassa. Reliance has access to approximately 343,000 acres of undeveloped land, with estimated gross resource in excess of 13 trillion cubic feet of shale gas in North America.

RIL has acquired a 95 per cent stake in Infotel Broadband Services, which has bid for broadband wireless access auction in all 22 telecom circles in the country. Reliance is poised to offer fourth generation wireless infocom services across the nation. RIL's retail business is expected to grow ten-fold from the current levels in the next five years. Reliance Retail posted revenue of Rs 4,500 crore for the last fiscal.

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