Tata Power to set up 1000 MW thermal plant in Telangana

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Tata Power has offered to set up a 1000 mega watt thermal power plant in Telangana. In addition, the company also offered to provide roof-top solar installations and energy plantations for biomass based power generation.

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The company made the offer during a meeting of its senior representatives, including Anil Sardana, CEO and managing director, with chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao at the Secretariat on Friday. The company informed the chief minister that it would establish thermal generation that will use either domestic or imported fuels on tolling basis and on a design, build, finance, own, operate and maintain basis.

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Besides the coal fired power project, Tata also offered its services to add solar power capacity and also establish a decentralised distributed generation system using solar power for rural areas. It will also set up roof top solar units and energy plantation on waste lands for biomass power, Tata Power chief executive officer Anil Kumar Sardana informed Mr. Rao.

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Regarding the thermal power plant, Mr. Sardana said it will use domestic or imported fuel on tolling basis and will be run on design, build, finance, own, operate and maintain basis. He added that Tata Power could act as a catalyst to develop amenities for world class smart cities with state of the art facility and services of power infrastructure.

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Mr. Rao asked the company to invest Rs. 30,000 to 40,000 crore for an integrated development of Hyderabad to make it a world class smart city.

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The delegation included Rahul Shah, Deepankar Tiwari and Madhu Kannan of Tata Sons and Tata Motors.

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