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- REC Limited (RECLTD.NS), a Maharatna Central Public Sector Enterprise under the Ministry of Power, Government of India, provides comprehensive financing solutions across the power sector value chain, including generation, transmission, distribution, and renewable energy projects; offers long-term, medium-term, and short-term loans for power infrastructure, working capital, equipment manufacturing, debt refinancing, equity financing, and specialized funding for coal mines; extends loans to non-power infrastructure such as roads, highways, metro rail, airports, ports, logistics, steel, IT parks, educational institutions, and hospitals; and delivers consultancy, project monitoring, financial appraisal, and technical support services to central and state power utilities, state electricity boards, rural electric cooperatives, NGOs, and private developers. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Gurugram with a registered office in New Delhi, the company operates 22 regional offices across India, serving primarily domestic markets while focusing on rural electrification, system improvements, and emerging technologies like electric vehicles and green hydrogen; it functions as a non-banking financial company (NBFC), infrastructure finance company (IFC), and systemically important non-deposit taking finance company registered with the Reserve Bank of India. As a subsidiary of Power Finance Corporation (PFC), REC Limited recently facilitated a landmark memorandum of understanding on November 14, 2025, between Meghalaya Power Distribution Corporation Limited and the Central Power Research Institute to enhance quality testing for power infrastructure; signed an MoU with Sagarmala Finance Corporation Limited on October 29, 2025, to boost maritime infrastructure financing; handed over special purpose vehicles for interstate transmission projects including SR WR Power Transmission Limited to Power Grid Corporation of India Limited and Ananthapuram II Power Transmission Limited to Shivalaya Construction Limited on October 18, 2025; and incorporated wholly owned subsidiaries Umred Power Transmission Limited and Sakoli Power Transmission Limited on July 7, 2025, for new transmission projects in Maharashtra.