Reliance Vashpet Wind Farm

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Reliance Clean Power Limited (RCPL), a subsidiary of Reliance Power Limited, planned to set up a 200 MW wind power plant in Vashpet, Maharashtra.The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group company would invest Rs 1500 crore in this project and the long-term plan was to double the generation. According to company sources, orders had been placed for 80 wind electric generators with a rated capacity of 2.5 mw each. German firm Fuhrlander would be providing the technology. Reliance Power hoped to have the project operational by September 2012. RCPL had entered into a long-term power purchase agreement with group firm Reliance Infrastructure at a tariff of Rs 5.37 per unit, as mooted by the Maharashtra State Electricity Regulatory Commission.The project would be eligible to get 3.7 million CERs in the initial 10 years of operation. This was expected to give additional revenue of Rs 300 crore for the project.