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Mundra Thermal Power Station

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Country
  
India

Status
  
Operational

Units operational
  
4 X 330 MW 5 X 660 MW

Operator
  
Adani Power

Location
  
Mundra, Gujarat

Primary fuel
  
Coal

Nameplate capacity
  
4,620 MW

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Mundra Thermal Power Station or Mundra Thermal Power Project is located at Mundra in Kutch district in the Indian state of Gujarat. The power plant is one of the coal-based power plants of Adani Power. The coal for the power plant is imported primarily from Bunyu, Indonesia. Source of water for the power plant is sea water from the Gulf of Kutch.

It is the world's 11th-largest single location coal-based thermal power plant as well as India's second largest operational power plant .

Capacity

The plant has nine power generating units, unit# 5 to 9 involves super-critical boiler technology.

In July 2012 Adani Power have requested Central Electricity Regulatory Commission to increase the power tariff due to increase in price of coal imported from Indonesia.

References

Mundra Thermal Power Station Wikipedia