Tata Power to commission coal unit at Mundra

Tata Power Company aims to commission the second unit of 800 MW at Mundra in Gujarat by August. It is looking forward for importing of 15 million tonnes of coal as it commissions new units.

In 2011-12 company had imported 5.5 million tonnes of coal. Tata Power, which is setting up the country's first ultra mega power plant (UMPP) at Mundra, recently synchronized its first 800 megawatt super critical unit. The Mundra project will have a total generation capacity of 4,000 megawatt when all the five units become fully operational.

The company had progressed on the remaining three units of Mundra UMPP and that it is likely to commission them with a time gap of four to five months between the units.