Adani Power
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Adani Power Limited is the power business arm of India
n business conglomerate
Adani Group
with head office at Ahmedabad
, Gujarat. The company is India's largest thermal private power producer with capacity of 3300 MW.
The company currently operates three supercritical boilers of 660MW each (as per October 2011) at Mundra
, Gujrat. It is India's first company to achieve the supercritical technology. The plant is the only thermal power plant in india to be certified by UN under CDM.
The company is currently implementing 16500 MW at different stages of construction. Its mission is to achieve 20000 MW by 2020. The company currently produces electricity using only coal. 100MW of solar power station is also under advanced stage of implementation at Surendranagar in Gujarat. The company has gone to long term PPAs of about 7200MW of its 9280MW with government of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana and Rajasthan.
. It was incorporated as Adani Power Limited on 22 August 1996 and received a certificate of commencement of business on 4 September 1996. The Company became a private limited company on 3 June 2002 and the name of the Company was subsequently changed to Adani Power Private Limited. The RoC issued a fresh certificate of incorporation on 3 June 2002. The Company was, thereafter, converted into a public limited company on 12 April 2007 and the name of the Company was changed to Adani Power Limited. Further, upon ceasing to be a private limited company, the word private was deleted through a special resolution at the EGM of the Company held on 28 March 2007. The fresh certificate of incorporation consequent to change of the name was granted by the RoC to the Company on 12 April 2007.
Adani power was started as a power trading company 1996. It started generation in July 2009 by implementation of its first 330MW of 4620mw at Mundra. The Mundra super mega project is the largest coal based power project of India and fifth largest in the world. The company commissioned another three 330 MW by November 2010 and country's 1st supercritical unit of 660 MW on 22 December 2010, making its capacity 1980 MW.0n 6 june 2011 it synchronized its second unit of 660 MW bringing the total generating capacity to 2640 MW and on 2nd October, 2011, it synchronized its third super critical unit with national grid .With this,Adani power has become largest thermal power generating company in the private sector and the Mundra plant has become India's Largest Power plant with capacity 3300MW.The company is set to take its generating capacity to 6000 MWs by the end of 2011-2012.
, Gujarat. It operates first power transmission project of 400KV Double Circuit Transmission System from the Mundra plant to Dehgam (430 km). The company operates India's first supercritical unit of 660MW. It also implemented country's only private 1000 km HVDC transmission line for efficient transmission of power to Haryana.
The company is currently implementing thermal projects of 3300MW (5X660MW) at Tiroda
, Maharastra and 1320MW (2X660MW) at Kawai, Rajsthan, and a 40MW solar project at Surendranagar,Gujrat
in Madhya Pradesh, 2000 MW TPP at Anugul
in Orissa and 2000MW gas based power project at Mundra in Gujarat. The company is also bidding for 1000 MW of lignite
coal
based power plant at Kosovo
showing its international projects.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n business conglomerate
Conglomerate (company)
A conglomerate is a combination of two or more corporations engaged in entirely different businesses that fall under one corporate structure , usually involving a parent company and several subsidiaries. Often, a conglomerate is a multi-industry company...
Adani Group
Adani Group
The Adani Group is a Gujarat based Indian conglomerate with the industrialist Gautam Adani as its CMD and promoter. The core business of the group is Commodities Trading, edible oil Manufacturing, Mundra port operations and distribution of Natural Gas. Adani group has more than 50 companies under...
with head office at Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad also known as Karnavati is the largest city in Gujarat, India. It is the former capital of Gujarat and is also the judicial capital of Gujarat as the Gujarat High Court has its seat in Ahmedabad...
, Gujarat. The company is India's largest thermal private power producer with capacity of 3300 MW.
The company currently operates three supercritical boilers of 660MW each (as per October 2011) at Mundra
Mundra
Mundra is a census town in Kutch district in the Indian state of Gujarat. Mundra Port is the largest private port in India.-Geography:The town of Mundra is located about 50 km from Anjar which is one of the major towns in the district of Kutch in Gujarat. The other important towns in this...
, Gujrat. It is India's first company to achieve the supercritical technology. The plant is the only thermal power plant in india to be certified by UN under CDM.
The company is currently implementing 16500 MW at different stages of construction. Its mission is to achieve 20000 MW by 2020. The company currently produces electricity using only coal. 100MW of solar power station is also under advanced stage of implementation at Surendranagar in Gujarat. The company has gone to long term PPAs of about 7200MW of its 9280MW with government of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana and Rajasthan.
History
The company was founded by the Adani group chairman billionaire Gautam AdaniGautam Adani
Gautam Adani , is an Indian businessman. He is the chairman of the Adani Group, a leading trading and export company of India. In March, 2011 Forbes magazine announced that Adani is the 6th richest person in India with a personal wealth of US $10 billion...
. It was incorporated as Adani Power Limited on 22 August 1996 and received a certificate of commencement of business on 4 September 1996. The Company became a private limited company on 3 June 2002 and the name of the Company was subsequently changed to Adani Power Private Limited. The RoC issued a fresh certificate of incorporation on 3 June 2002. The Company was, thereafter, converted into a public limited company on 12 April 2007 and the name of the Company was changed to Adani Power Limited. Further, upon ceasing to be a private limited company, the word private was deleted through a special resolution at the EGM of the Company held on 28 March 2007. The fresh certificate of incorporation consequent to change of the name was granted by the RoC to the Company on 12 April 2007.
Adani power was started as a power trading company 1996. It started generation in July 2009 by implementation of its first 330MW of 4620mw at Mundra. The Mundra super mega project is the largest coal based power project of India and fifth largest in the world. The company commissioned another three 330 MW by November 2010 and country's 1st supercritical unit of 660 MW on 22 December 2010, making its capacity 1980 MW.0n 6 june 2011 it synchronized its second unit of 660 MW bringing the total generating capacity to 2640 MW and on 2nd October, 2011, it synchronized its third super critical unit with national grid .With this,Adani power has become largest thermal power generating company in the private sector and the Mundra plant has become India's Largest Power plant with capacity 3300MW.The company is set to take its generating capacity to 6000 MWs by the end of 2011-2012.
Operations
The company currently operates 3300 MW coal based thermal power plant in MundraMundra
Mundra is a census town in Kutch district in the Indian state of Gujarat. Mundra Port is the largest private port in India.-Geography:The town of Mundra is located about 50 km from Anjar which is one of the major towns in the district of Kutch in Gujarat. The other important towns in this...
, Gujarat. It operates first power transmission project of 400KV Double Circuit Transmission System from the Mundra plant to Dehgam (430 km). The company operates India's first supercritical unit of 660MW. It also implemented country's only private 1000 km HVDC transmission line for efficient transmission of power to Haryana.
The company is currently implementing thermal projects of 3300MW (5X660MW) at Tiroda
Tiroda
Tiroda is a region in the Indian State of Maharashtra. Adani Power Ltd is coming up with a power plant of size 1300 MW in the region....
, Maharastra and 1320MW (2X660MW) at Kawai, Rajsthan, and a 40MW solar project at Surendranagar,Gujrat
Future projects
, the company has 16500MW under implementation and planning stage. A few of them are 3300MW coal based TPP at Bhadreswar in Gujarat, 2640 MW TPP at Dahej in Gujrat, 1320 MW TPP at ChhindwaraChhindwara
Chhindwara is a town and a municipality in Chhindwara district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of Chhindwara District. Chhindwara is reachable by rail or road from adjacent cities Nagpur and Jabalpur...
in Madhya Pradesh, 2000 MW TPP at Anugul
Anugul
Anugul is a town and a notified area committee in Anugul district in the state of Orissa, India.-Geography:Anugul is located at . It has an average elevation of .-Demographics:...
in Orissa and 2000MW gas based power project at Mundra in Gujarat. The company is also bidding for 1000 MW of lignite
Lignite
Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, or Rosebud coal by Northern Pacific Railroad,is a soft brown fuel with characteristics that put it somewhere between coal and peat...
coal
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...
based power plant at Kosovo
Kosovo
Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...
showing its international projects.