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History: Our Legacy
Guided by our Founder Mr. Jamshetji Tata’s vision that ‘clean, cheap & abundant power is one of the basic ingredients for the economic progress of a city, state or country’, Tata Power commissioned India’s first power plant- the hydro-electric station- in Khopoli (72 MW) in 1915, the second hydro station one in Bhivpuri (75 MW) in 1919 and the 3rd one in Bhira (300 MW) in 1922. With these three hydro stations and the 1,430 MW (100 MW merchant) thermal power station in Trombay, Mumbai; a 475 MW power station near Jamshedpur in Jharkhand and a 87 MW thermal power plant in Belgaum, Tata Power is the largest integrated private power company in India and is the most trustworthy power supplier to Mumbai.
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Recent Additions to Capacity
In addition, we have the largest installed capacity for wind generation to the tune of 200 MW and are adding another 98 MW at the present moment. The 200 MW wind farm is distributed in three different states of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Gujarat. In the state of Jharkhand, Tata Power has set up power generation from waste heat and coke oven gases. This capacity is an additional 210 MW in Jamshedpur and Haldia. Tata Power is now building India’s first Ultra Mega Power Plant (UMPP) in Mundra, near Bhuj. The 4000 MW station will have five boilers each with a 800 MW unit size using supercritical technology that has a higher efficiency (43%) compared to that of a sub-critical boiler (37%). Shortly, we will be setting up a 3MW PV based power generation facility in the state of Maharashtra. |
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Khopoli Hydro Power Station
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