Tata Power, India’s largest integrated power utility, announced crossing over 800 MUs from its Wind Power Projects in FY13. In the span of one year, the Company’s wind farms have generated 813 MUs as against 569 MUs in the previous year, recording an incremental generation of 43% in FY13.
This growth is mainly attributed to the Agaswadi wind farms which had an increased generation of 85 MUs and Poolavadi with 140 MUs. Tata Power has a total installed capacity of 398 MW in Wind Generation with plants across five states Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, which are the leading states in promoting wind power generation in India.
Tata Power has adopted the following technologies In order to optimize its operations:
- Surge protection module in pitch power supply unit for reducing pitching error and convertor errors
- Vacuum type slip ring to increase the maintenance cycle of wind turbines
- Air gap monitoring at bearings to prevent bearing failures
Speaking on achieving this milestone, Anil Sardana, Managing Director, Tata Power, said, “Tata Power is developing wind power projects of over 160 MW in India. We are proud to have increased our wind generation capacity by a record of 43%, which proves our commitment towards to generating 20-25 % of our total generation capacity from clean energy sources.”
Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL), a 100% subsidiary of Tata Power has recently signed a SPA for acquisition of 100% shareholding in AES Saurashtra Windfarms Pvt Ltd (ASW), a 100% subsidiary of AES Corporation. ASW owns and operates a 39.2 MW wind farm near Dwarka in Jamnagar district of Gujarat. The project which is fully operational since January 2012 has executed a power purchase agreement with GUVNL for sale of the electricity at a tariff of Rs 3.56/kWh for the duration of the project. The project is registered with UNFCCC as a CDM project and is eligible to receive CERs. The project is also registered under the Generation Based Incentive scheme of MNRE.
The Company international wind presence includes a Joint Venture Company in South Africa with Exxaro, Cennergi (Pty.) Ltd. Cennergi has recently announced financial closure of its 95 MW Tsitsikamma Wind Farm Project and 135 MW Amakhala Emoyeni Wind Farm Project The wind projects will be located in Eastern Cape, South Africa and are expected to achieve commercial operations in 2016. Power Purchase Agreements and Implementation Agreements for these projects were signed with Eskom and Department of Energy, Government of South Africa respectively on May 9th, 2013.
Tata Power is also pursuing new environment friendly technologies and has installed micro turbines to understand their performance in Indian conditions. The purpose of this project is to determine the most cost-effective forms of wind energy which can be installed on rooftops or in remote areas where there is sufficient wind energy. Micro turbines of capacities of 2 kW from Windtronics, 5 kW and 12 kW from WePower and 5 kW from Unitron have been installed at the test bed site.
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