Reliance Power commissions 5th unit of its Sasan UMPP

With this, the total operational capacity of the Sasan plant in Madhya Pradesh has reached 3,300 MW

Reliance Power’s Sasan based Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP) started power generation from the fifth unit of 660 Mw. This takes the cumulative operational capacity of the plant to 3,300 mw out of the planned 3,960 mw.

Sasan UMPP is the largest integrated power plant and coal mining project in the world. Coal production has already commenced from the 20 million tonnes Moher and Moher-Amlohri coal mines associated with the power project.

The sixth and last unit of the power plant is expected to commission in few months. Reliance Power in a statement issued on Tuesday said the company is hopeful to achieve a capacity of 6,000 Mw by end of 2014.

With the commencement of this unit, the Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Power’s generation capacity has increased to 5,185 Mw which includes 5,100 Mw of thermal capacity and 85 Mw of renewable energy based capacity.

Sasan UMPP has signed power purchase agreement with utilities of seven states vis a vis Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand to sell power at 70 paisa per unit.

The RPower scrip was trading at Rs 79, down 4.24%, on the BSE.