Tata Power has stepped up its focus on the renewables business, evaluating both greenfield and inorganic acquisitions. Anil Sardana, managing director and chief executive officer, Tata Power, tells Nirmalya Behera and Jayajit Dash how the company is looking at increased digitalisation and disruptive technologies to cut costs of thermal and solar power, and its efforts to tide over underrecovery at its 4,000-Mw Mundra power project. Edited excerpts:
What are your plans to build a green energy portfolio? How will the additional investments be funded?
We have ambitious plans to keep fuelling multifold growth across the value chain. We have gross generation