Mundra Thermal Power Station is located at Mundra in Kutch district in the Indian state of

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. The power plant is one of the coal-based power plants of

Adani Power Adani Power is an Indian power and energy company. A subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Adani Group with head office at Khodiyar in Ahmedabad, it is a private thermal power producer, with a capacity of 12,450 MW that operates a mega solar plant o ...

. The coal for the power plant is imported primarily from

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. Source of water for the power plant is sea water from the

Gulf of Kutch The Gulf of Kutch is located between the peninsula regions of Kutch and Saurashtra, bounded in the state of Gujarat that borders Pakistan. It opens towards the Arabian Sea facing the Osman Gulf. It is about 50 km wide at the entrance bef ...

. It is the world's 11th-largest single location coal-based thermal power plant as well as India's second largest operational power plant after NTPC Vindhyanchal.

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The plant has nine power generating units, unit# 5 to 9 involves super-critical boiler technology. In July 2012 Adani Power have requested

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to increase the power tariff due to increase in price of coal imported from Indonesia.

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{{Power Plants of Gujarat Coal-fired power stations in Gujarat Economy of Kutch district Energy infrastructure completed in 2009 2009 establishments in Gujarat

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