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Tata Power, country's largest private power utility today said it has commissioned additional transmission lines in Maharashtra.
Tata Power announced the commissioning of additional transmission lines in Maharashtra between Kalwa and Salsette, the company said in a statement.
The transmission line will relieve critical loading of the Kalwa-Salsette lines and will enhance transmission for bringing power from outside to Mumbai city, it said.
The unavailability of natural gas to power plants has forced Tata Power's Trombay thermal plant to be underutilised or remain out since July 19, 2013.
This acute shortage of up to 500 MW capacity generation from Trombay for Mumbai city, has made it necessary for power to be imported from outside the city, the statement added.
To reduce the critical loading of these lines, Tata Power had put up a proposal to Maharashtra State Load Despatch Centre (SLDC) and State Transmission Utility (STU) for augmenting transmission lines between Kalwa and Salsette.
As a first phase additional interconnecting line has been commissioned as a short term measure which has also increased the load carrying capacity and paves way for further planned augmentation, it added.
"Tata Power will continue to make all efforts that the Mumbai consumers are not adversely affected due to the acute shortage of natural gas to Trombay," Ashok Sethi, Chief (Operations)Tata Power said in the statement.
