Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam

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RVUNL
Type Government-owned corporation, PSU
Industry Electricity generation
Founded2000
Headquarters Jaipur, India
Key people
Shri R K Sharma, chairman and managing director [1]
Products Electricity
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Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd (RVUNL) is the electricity generation company of the Government of Rajasthan state in India.

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History

Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd has been entrusted with the job of development of power projects under state sector, in the state along with operation and maintenance of state-owned power stations by un-bundling the erstwhile RSEB. The Government of Rajasthan continued the RVUNL under the companies Act 1956 on 19 July 2000. The nigam is playing lead role in giving high priority to the power generation and manifold and rapid development of the state. The chairman and managing director is Shri P. Ramesh.

Generation capacity

The installed capacity of RVUNL was as of December 2018 is 6831 MW. [2]

Thermal

Gas

Hydro

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