Adani Power short-listed for 1,000-MW plant in Kosovo

Gujarat-based Adani Power (APL) has been shortlisted along with three other international bidders to build a 1,000 MW coal-fired power plant in European nation Kosovo. The government of Kosovo has asked the short-listed bidders to submit detailed project proposals. Tenders will be published in April this year and final bidder will be selected in July.

     The other three bidders are US-based AES with Turkey's Demir Export, Turkey's Park Holding and a consortium of US-UK Contour Global with Greece?s public power company. The plant will be based near Pristina, the capital city of the young nation having population of two million people. Kosovo, which suffers from chronic electricity shortages, holds Europe's third largest reserves of lignite, estimated at more than 10 billion tonnes.

     APL has been active on various power projects in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh with more than 11,000 MW of total capacity, which are at different stages of planning and implementation.

APL is setting up two power plants in Gujarat -- one in Mundra with 4,620 MW capacity and another in Dahej with 2,640 MW capacity. It is also building one 3,300-MW plant at Tiroda in Maharashtra and 1,320-MW plant at Kawai in Rajasthan. Last month, it had announced to set up another 1,320 MW coal fired power plant at Chaunsara village in Chhindwara district in Madhya Pradesh.