Reliance Power to commission second unit of 660 mw at Sasan in December

MUMBAI: Reliance Power will commission the second unit of its sasan ultra mega power project ( UMPP) in December after it successfully lit-up the boiler for the unit, the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Groups said Friday.

The company had bagged three of the four UMPPs of 4,000 mw each awarded by the government but Sasan is the only one where work has progressed. In March 2013, the first unit of 660 mw at Sasan was commissioned.

The company has already started production of coal from the coal mines attached to the Sasan project.

Reliance Power has an operational capacity of 2,545 mw. At the time of its initial public offer in 2008, R-Power had planned to set up power plants with a combined capacity of 28,200 mw across India, fuelled by coal or gas as well as hydropower. Since then, the company has added a few new projects but also abandoned some. It later revised its capacity addition target to 25,000 mw by 2015, but it now expects to add 20,000 mw by 2020, given the slowdown in the industry.