New Delhi, March 15: Aiming to produce 25 per cent power from green sources by 2017, Tata Power plans to increase its wind and solar energy generation capacity to 2,000 MW and 250 MW respectively, which could entail an investment of over Rs 13,000 crore.
“The company is looking for viable locations in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. By 2017, it expects to generate 2,000 MW of wind energy,” Tata Power Executive Director Banmali Agrawala said in Tata Review, an in-house magazine.
Tata Power has two wind power generation projects each in Maharashtra and Gujarat and one in Karnataka with a cumulative capacity of 195 MW. An additional 100-MW plant is under construction in Gujarat.
The company, the largest private sector thermal power generator in the country, also plans to its increase solar energy capacity to 250 MW by 2017
–Agencies