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Profile
A pioneer in the Indian power sector, Tata Power (TPL)
is one of India’s largest energy utilities. Started
as the Tata Hydroelectric Power Supply Company in 1911,
it is an amalgamation of two entities: Tata Hydroelectric
Power Supply Company, Andhra Valley Power Supply Company
(1916).
TPL provides services in power generation, distribution
and transmission; oil and gas; and broadband and communications.
The company has big overseas power projects in a number
of countries, including the UAE, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia,
Kuwait and Algeria. It has also undertaken projects
in power plant / utility operations and management in
Saudi Arabia, Liberia, Iran, Sierra Leone and Algeria.
Areas
of business
Power expertise services
- Setting up independent power
plants (lPPs) and captive power plants (CPPs), and
executing power transmission and distribution projects.
- Operation and maintenance
services.
- ‘Remnant life assessment’
and ‘performance evaluation services’ of
power plant equipment.
- In overseas projects, erection,
testing, commissioning and trial operations.
- In power plant / utility
operations, management and plant operators’ training
projects (in India and abroad).
Oil and gas
Through Tata Petrodyne, a wholly owned subsidiary, TPL
engages in oil and gas exploration and production. It
is part of consortia comprising leading oil and gas
companies like Cairn Energy, Enron, Hardy Exploration
& Production, ONGC and Hindustan Oil Exploration
Company for gas and oil exploration and development
projects in three offshore blocks. These are: two gas
blocks in the Gulf of Cambay, and one oil block in the
Cauvery basin, Tamil Nadu.
Broadband
and communications
TPL is poised to exploit the potential of the exponentially
growing broadband business in Mumbai, which accounts
for 30 per cent of the India’s Internet traffic. Tata
Power already has an optic fibre network of 600 km in
the city. Additionally, it has ‘right of way’ in an
additional 1,200 km in Mumbai. Tata Power's optic fibre
network covers all of Greater Mumbai, including commercial,
residential and industrial centres.
TPL is spearheading the Tata
Group’s thrust into broadband, and will coordinate its
activities with other Group companies to exploit the
sector’s potential, with the objective being to provide
high-quality, wide-spectrum broadband services. The
company also has plans to set up its own Internet gateways.
TPL is aiming to expand its broadband operations to
a national level in the next few years. Its national
broadband network will link major cities within the
country, and have a greater presence in high-value states
such as Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
Subsidiaries
Community
initiatives
- Eco-restoration and eco-development:
TPL is involved in a variety of endeavours in this
area. These include pisciculture — including
a well-recognised mahseer conservation project —
developing public spaces; environmental education;
environmental research activities; and water conservation.
- Fish farming: As a
part of its rural development thrust, the company
releases over 100,000 fish fingerlings every year
in village ponds in different parts of India, and
provides advice on their cultivation and growth. The
money garnered from selling the fish is used to promote
multi-directional village development schemes.
- Medical aid and healthcare:
TPL’s medical officers extend free medical
facilities and medicines to local people from the
villages adjoining the company’s generating stations.
Over 4,000 villagers from 40 villages avail of these
facilities every month. It conducts eradication drives,
health and sanitation activities, organises regular
immunisation camps and runs childcare clinics.
- Education: More than
460 children are studying in schools established by
TPL.
- Disaster relief:
The company and its employees have consistently
lent their hand to the needy in times of natural disasters
and other emergencies.
Locations
TPL owns, operates and maintains a unique mix
of thermal and hydroelectric power plants. The hydroelectric
plants are in Khopoli, Bhivpuri and Bhira (all in Maharashtra),
and the thermal power plants are in Trombay (Maharashtra),
Wadi and Belgaum (Karnataka), and Jojobera (Jharkhand).
Contact
Bombay House
24, Homi Mody Street
Mumbai 400 001
India
Phone: +91 (22) 6665 8282
Fax: +91 (22) 6665 8801
Email: vksawant@tpc.co.in
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