Adani Power
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| Public company (: , : 533096) | |
| Industry | Energy |
| Founded | 22 August 1996 |
| Headquarters | Ahmedabad, India |
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Key people
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Gautam Adani, (Chairman) Vineet S Jaain, (CEO) |
| Products | Electricity generation, transmission and distribution; energy trading |
| Revenue | ₹113.04 billion (US$1.7 billion)(2014) |
| ₹195.52 billion (US$3.0 billion)(2014) | |
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Number of employees
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2,000 (2011) |
| Parent | Adani Enterprises Limited |
| Website | adanipower.com |
Gautam Adani, (Chairman)
Adani Power Limited is the power business subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Adani Group with head office at Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The company is India's largest private power producer, with capacity of 10,440 MW and also it is the largest solar power producer of India with a capacity of 688 MW. Adani Power Limited is ranked 334th in the top companies in India in Fortune India 500 list of 2011.
The company operates five supercritical boilers of 660 MW each (as per March 2012) at Mundra Gujarat & Five 660 MW units(as per May 2015) at Tiroda, Maharashtra. It also operates a mega solar plant of 40 MW at Naliya, Bitta, Kutch, Gujarat. It is India's first company to achieve the supercritical technology. The plant is the only thermal power plant in India to be certified by UN under CDM.
The company is implementing 16500 MW at different stages of construction. Its mission is to achieve 20000 MW by 2020. 100 MW of solar power station is also under advanced stage of implementation at Surendranagar in Gujarat out of which 40 MW is already commissioned. The company has gone to long term PPAs of about 7200 MW of its 9280 MW with government of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana and Rajasthan.
Adani power was started as a power trading company in 1996. It started generation in July 2009 by implementation of its first 330 MW of 4620 MW at Mundra. The Mundra super mega project is the largest coal-based power project of India and fifth largest in the world. The company commissioned another three 330 MW by November 2010 and country's first supercritical unit of 660 MW on 22 December 2010, making its capacity 1980 MW. 0n 6 June 2011 it synchronised its second unit of 660 MW bringing the total generating capacity to 2640 MW and on 2 October 2011, it synchronised its third super critical unit with national grid. With this, Adani power has become largest thermal power generating company in the private sector, and the Mundra plant has become India's Largest Power plant with capacity 3300 MW.
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