Tata Power today said the first 800 MW unit of the Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP) has started power generation.
"Tata Power's Mundra UMPP has successfully synchronised India's first 800 MW super critical unit 1 at Mundra," the company said in a statement.
The project at Mundra in Kutch district of Gujarat, shall have five units of 800 MW each, generating 4,000 MW of power using supercritical technology.
The first unit was slated to be ready for commissioning by September 2011.
Power Finance Corporation, the nodal agency for these UMPPs, has so far awarded four such projects. The other three projects -- Sasan (Madhya Pradesh), Krishnapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and Tilaiya (Jharkhand) -- have been bagged by Reliance Power.
The Tata Group firm, which currently has power generation capacity of 3,797 MW, has ambitious plans for 25,000 MW capacity by 2017. Of this, 4,000 MW will come from Mundra.
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