Tatas To Pump Rs.13,000 Cr. For Generating Wind, Solar Energy

India's largest private sector thermal power-generator, Tata Power, plans to increase its wind-and-solar-energy-generation capacity to 2,000 MW and 250 MW respectively by investing over Rs.13,000 crore. This is to produce 25% power from green sources by 2017, report say.

Executive Director Banmali Agrawala wrote in "Tata Review", the in-house magazine, that the company was looking for viable locations in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

Tata Power has two wind power-generation projects each in Maharashtra and Gujarat and one in Karnataka with a cumulative capacity of 195 MW. A 100-MW plant is being constructed in Gujarat.

by RTTNews Staff Writer

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