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Tata Power starts production at first unit of Mundra UMPP

Date: 09-01-2012

Tata Power Company commissioned a unit of its 4,000 mw power station at Mundra in Gujarat, becoming the country’s first ultra mega power project (UMPP) to generate electricity.

The project at Mundra in Kutch district of Gujarat shall have five units of 800 MW each generating 4,000 MW of power using supercritical technology. The first unit was slated to be ready for commissioning by September 2011.

Power Finance Corporation (PFC), the nodal agency for these UMPPs, has so far awarded four such projects. The other three projects -- Sasan (Madhya Pradesh), Krishnapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and Tilaiya (Jharkhand) -- have been bagged by Reliance Power.