What is the Tata Mundra Project?
The Tata Mundra Project is a 4,000-megawatt power plant that is being developed by Coastal Gujarat Power Limited at the port city of Mundra in India’s Gujarat state. This ultra mega project will establish India’s first 800-megawatt unit supercritical technology thermal power plant, which is likely to be the most energy-efficient, coal-based thermal power plant in the country. The Project is expected to impact close to 16 million domestic consumers apart from supplying cost competitive power to industry and agriculture. The project will sell power to the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra in western India and to Haryana and Punjab in northern India, areas that are suffering from severe shortages of electricity. It will provide a competitive source of power and help meet these states’ growing demand for electricity. Cheap and reliable power from the project will help improve the competitiveness of the manufacturing and services industries, which often rely on expensive standby
