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Orient Green Power Company Limited (OGPL) today announced that its operating capacities now exceed 500 mega watt. This comes after the recent commissioning of three Biomass units in Narsinghpur (MP) – an unit of the company and Kishanganj,(Rajasthan) and Marikal (AP) units through its subsidiaries.
As of date, the Company’s operating capacity stands at 502 Mw comprising 416 Mw of Wind assets and 86 Mw of Biomass assets.
Orient Green Power, part of the Shriram Group, has its wind farms located in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Karnataka.
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The company is also a leading biomass energy business with a capacity of 86 MW across its plants located in Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.
The company said to further consolidate its presence, OGPL is on track to commission a further 40 mw of capacity across both verticals and evaluating opportunities arising in the space especially wind business, which could further propel its growth of the business.
S Venkatachalam, managing director OGPL commented that despite several well-known challenges in the power sector, the company had soldiered on with our capacity addition plans to attain scale in both of its verticals. This milestone of 500 MW represents capacities which are installed and operating with fuel sourcing arrangements and power offtake contracts in place.
In addition to its existing capacity, the company is also close to commissioning another 40 Mw of capacity under our wind and biomass verticals which will help us to further consolidate our position as a leading player in the renewable energy business.
