TATA Power which is implementing the 4000 MW Mundra ultra mega power project said it will exceed the 2012 target by 800 MW. The company is all set to commission three units 800 MW each of UMPP in Gujarat by the end of the Eleventh Plan March 31st 2012. Earlier it had planned to set up only two units by 2012.

Mr S Ramakrishnan executive director of TATA Power told ET that “The company has already completed around 30% of the work at the Mundra UMPP. We are in possession of land and have started work on putting up the main plant equipment.”

He said while the original schedule of commissioning the first unit is September 2011, the company has internally advanced the targets with the idea of fully commissioning the 4000 MW project by the end of 2012. It has also shrunk the commissioning time between two units from the targeted five months to four months. Mundra is the first UMPP where the bidding process was successfully completed by the government.

While Sasan UMPP in Madhya Pradesh was first such project under the government scheme, its bidding got delayed due to a controversy surrounding one of the earlier bidders. Reliance Power, which is constructing the Sasan project is also targeting to commission at least one unit of 660 MW by March 2011.

(Sourced from Economic Times)