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{{#badges: CoalSwarm|Navbar-Indiacoal}} '''Girye Ultra Mega Power Project''' is one of nine [[Ultra Mega Power Projects in India|Ultra Mega Power Projects]] proposed by the government of India as part of a strategy to add an additional 100,000 megawatts of generation capacity by 2017. The 4,000 megawatt project is in the state of Maharastra.<ref name="ABARE2010">Rebecca Petchey, Michael Lampard and Alan Copeland, [http://www.abare.gov.au/publications_html/ac/ac_10/ac10_Mar_a.pdf ''Thermal coal"], ''Australian commodities'', ABARE, Volume 17 number 1, March quarter 2010, page 155.</ref><ref>Amiti Sen & Subhash Narayan, [http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/energy/power/States-make-case-for-second-UMPP-with-advanced-land-clearances/articleshow/5703788.cms "States make case for second UMPP with advanced land clearances"], ''Economic Times'', (India), March 20, 2010.</ref>
The special purpose company created by the Indian government's [[Power Finance Corporation]] (PFC) to develop the project is [[Coastal Maharashtra Mega Power Limited]].<ref>Ministry of Power, [http://www.powermin.nic.in/whats_new/pdf/ultra%20mega%20project.pdf "Ultra Mega Power Projects"], October 2007, page 3.</ref> According to the PFC's website, as of February 2012, the project has not yet been awarded to any bidder.<ref>Power Finance Corporation, [http://www.pfc.gov.in/Content/UltraMegaPower.aspx "Ultra Mega Power Projects (UMPP)"], Power Finance Corporation website, accessed February 2012.</ref>
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