Having won five ISTS projects under the tariff-based competitive bidding (TBCB) route recently, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) has recorded three more wins.
In two recent stock exchange filings, PGCIL said that it has won the following three interstate transmission system (ISTS) projects, under the TBCB route. All the projects will be developed under a concession agreement on build, own, operate & maintain (BOOM) basis.
The three projects are officially termed as:
(Note: Details of the bid process coordinator (BPC) and project SPVs were not disclosed in the stock exchange filings by PGCIL, and have been obtained by T&D India through reliable sources.)
In its meeting held on March 9, 2023, the PGCIL board approved the proposal to raise up to Rs.900 crore through private placement of bonds. The total monies, comprising Rs.300 crore of original bond issue and up to Rs.600 crore as greenshoe option, will be made by securitization of cash flows of 10 years (up to FY33) of its operational SPV “Powergrid Mithilanchal Transmission Ltd,” PGCIL said in a filing.
In a recent independent development, the PGCIL board accorded investment approval worth Rs.4,070.98 crore to the following two projects:
It is reliably learnt that both these projects will be developed by PGCIL under the regulated tariff mechanism (RTM) modality.