REC Power Development and Consultancy Limited (RECPDCL), a wholly owned subsidiary of REC Limited under the Ministry of Power, has handed over the project-specific Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) of the InSTS Transmission Project of Maharashtra—Umred Power Transmission Limited—to Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company Limited (MSETCL). The handover took place on February 26, 2026.
MSETCL emerged as the successful bidder through the Tariff-Based Competitive Bidding (TBCB) process conducted by RECPDCL, which acted as the Bid Process Coordinator, for development of the transmission project on a Build, Own, Operate and Transfer (BOOT) basis.
The SPV was formally handed over by Vijay Kulkarni, Senior General Manager and Head of Department (T&D), RECPDCL, to Vineeta Shriwani, Company Secretary, and Amit Naik, Chief Engineer (TBCB), MSETCL, in the presence of senior officials of RECPDCL, MSETCL and Maharashtra STU. The implementation period of the project is 24 months.
The scheme broadly includes the establishment of a 400/220/132 kV substation at Umred; a 220 kV double circuit transmission line of around 51 km from Umred (New) to Additional Buttibori (Proposed); a 132 kV double circuit line of around 38 km from Kolari (Existing) to Umred (New); and LILO of various lines at 400/220/132 kV levels, along with other associated works.
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