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Mundra Thermal Power Station
Mundra Thermal Power Station is located at Mundra in Kutch district in the Indian state of Gujarat. The power plant is one of the coal-based power plants of Adani Power. The coal for the power plant is imported primarily from Bunyu, Indonesia. Source of water for the power plant is sea water from the Gulf of Kutch.

It is the world's 11th-largest single location coal-based thermal power plant as well as India's second largest operational power plant after NTPC Vindhyanchal.

Capacity

The plant has nine power generating units, unit# 5 to 9 involves super-critical boiler technology.

In July 2012 Adani Power have requested Central Electricity Regulatory Commission to increase the power tariff due to increase in price of coal imported from Indonesia.

Stage Unit Number Installed Capacity (MW) Date of Commissioning
1st 1 330 2009 May
1st 2 330 2010
2nd 3 330 2010 July
2nd 4 330 2010 Nov
3rd 5 660 2010 December
3rd 6 660 2011 June
4th 7 660 2011 October
4th 8 660 2012
4th 9 660 2012 March
Total Nine 4620

See also

References

  1. ^ "Indonesian nightmare for Tata, Adani, JSW, Lanco". dna.
  2. ^ "Mundra world's largest coal-fired pvt power plant". The Times of India.
  3. ^ "Adani Power wants tariff revision for more power purchase agreements". The Economic Times.
  4. ^ "First unit of Adani's Mundra power plant becomes operational". indianexpress.com.
  5. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-07-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ BS Reporter (31 July 2010). "Adani starts third unit of Mundra power plant". business-standard.com.
  7. ^ "Adani Power synchronizes 4th 330 MW unit at Mundra". indiainfoline.com.
  8. ^ "APL synchronises country's first supercritical power plant". The Economic Times.
  9. ^ "Adani Power synchronises 2nd Supercritical power Unit of 660 mw at Mundra". wirecable.in.
  10. ^ "Mundra World's Largest Coal-Fired Pvt Power Plant". Energy Tribune.
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