Thursday, December 13, 2007

3 Indian cos bid for Singapore power giant


Three domestic power companies — Reliance Energy, Tata Power and GMR Infrastructure — have submitted indicative bids to acquire Singapore-government owned Tuas Power.

While Tata Power and Reliance Energy have decided to bid on their own, Bangalore-based GMR Infrastructure has formed a consortium with Macquarie Bank and Kuwait Fund for the purpose.The price tag for the foreign asset could be at around $2 billion (Rs 8,000 crore).The domestic power majors submitted their bids today, which was the last date of submission of indicative bids.

Industry sources said other interested parties include Hong Kong's China Light & Power, Hongkong Electric, Japan's Marubeni, Singapore's SembCorp Industries, Tokyo Electric Power Co, Australia's Babcock & Brown, General Electric and International Power Plc of the UK.

Read more in The Business Standard article.

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