Supreme Court allows Tata Power to supply to retail clients in Mumbai

Mumbai: The Supreme Court has allowed Tata Power Company Ltd to supply electricity to retail consumers having a requirement of 1,000 KV or less in Mumbai.

A bench headed by Justice Altamas Kabir, while pronouncing the judgement, rejected Reliance Energy's contention that Tata Power had the licence to supply power to only bulk customers.

Tata Power is the country's largest private sector power utility with an installed generation capacity of over 2300 MW. The company has a presence in all power sector segments, viz, generation (thermal, hydro, solar, wind and liquid fuel), transmission and distribution.

Tata Power has a 935 km high tension and low tension cable distribution network connecting 17 major receiving stations and over 85 sub-stations in its Mumbai licence area.

The company is actively pursuing growth and expansion plans and hopes to add 4000 MW of generating capacity at Ultra mega power project at Mundra in Gujarat and 1000 MW at the Maithon thermal power project at Maithon (in partnership with DVC) Jharkhand and several upcoming projects in Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Orissa, and West Bengal.

Tata Power owns and operates 1200 circuit Km of high voltage (220 kV and 110 kV) Transmission Network.

The company recently took a 51 per cent stake in the Rs1,200 crore 1,200 km Tala Transmission project - a joint venture with the Power Grid Corporation of India. It also formed a joint venture - Powerlinks Transmission Limited - to evacuate power from the Tala Hydro Project in Bhutan and to carry surplus electricity from the North East to the northern Indian states.

With the privatisation of Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB), Tata Power Company holds managing control in the distribution company North Delhi Power Limited (NDPL). NDPL today distributes and supplies power to the North-North West areas of Delhi, the company said in its website.