About Rural Electrification Corporation
Rural Electrification Corporation Limited, a public financial institution, provides finance assistance for rural electrification projects in India. It offers finance for intensive electrification projects; pump set projects; the improvement of transmission, sub transmission, and distribution systems; the procurement and installation of meters, transformers, capacitors, etc.; and for various working capital requirements, such as the purchase of fuel for power plant, as well as for the purchase of power, material and minor equipment, and system and network maintenance, including transformer repairs, etc. The company also provides debt refinancing for state power utilities/private power utilities by repaying their term loans raised from other banks/financial institutions; short term/medium term loans to the manufacturers of power/electrical material for power projects; finance for the development of rural electric cooperative societies; and term loans to state/central sector/private sector companies for power generation projects. It serves state electricity boards, state government departments, and rural electric cooperatives. The company was incorporated in 1969 and is based in New Delhi, India.
