With Mumbai’s demand for electricity expected to touch 5,000 MW in near future and present transmission capacity at only 2700 MW, Adani Electricity Mumbai Ltd is working on a plan to bring additional power from the national grid to the metropolis with the help of other stakeholders. After the takeover of the company, AEML has already invested Rs 1,500 crore to upgrade the systems to bring it on par with global peers, says Kandarp Patel, CEO and MD of AEML in an interview with Dev Chatterjee and Aditi Divekar. Excerpts
The demand for electricity is rising very fast in Mumbai