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Transrail Lighting, an EPC player in the transmission and distribution sector, expects to grab an 8-10 per cent market share in contracts by state-run transmission giant Power Grid Corporation this year, a top company official said. Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (Powergrid), under the Ministry of Power, is India's largest power transmission utility. It has announced a capital expenditure of Rs 28,000 crore for the ongoing FY26, Rs 35,000 crore for FY27 and Rs 45,000 crore for FY28. "Our current market share is around 8 per cent to 10 per cent and this is what we intend to achieve this year with Power Grid which is a good number and it gives us a good base to execute in India," Transrail Lighting Managing Director and CEO Randeep Narang said. On the company's order size, he said Transrail booked orders of Rs 9,680 crore in FY25 which is 120 per cent growth year on year (YoY). The company closed the year with a confirmed un-executed order book (UEOB) of Rs 14,551 crore, and
State-run Power Grid is planning an undersea interconnection worth up to Rs 40,000 crore with countries in the Middle East, a top official said on Monday. After the soft June quarter, which witnessed revenues being almost flat, the company sees the topline inching by only 4-5 per cent in FY25, its chairman and managing director R K Tyagi told reporters here after the earnings announcement on Friday. The company plans to invest Rs 18,000 crore this fiscal year, which will help accelerate the growth rate going forward, Tyagi said, explaining that as projects become older, the earnings from transmission projects go down and the company has to keep commissioning new projects to have higher revenue growths. On the interconnected projects front, it is looking at companies beyond the immediate neighbourhood and will be looking at countries in the Middle East, Tyagi said. He specified that discussions are ongoing with Oman, Saudi Arabia and the UAE for the interconnection. The company has