India-based Tata Power’s 50.4 MW wind power project at Samana, Gujarat, has been registered under Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) programme of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
CDM was established under the Kyoto Protocol to advance sustainable development and enable developing countries to attract investments in clean energy technology.
The Samana wind plant is the company’s third CDM registered project, with the 50.4 MW wind project at Khandke, Maharashtra and 25 MW solar project at Mithapur, Gujarat registered in June 2010 and January 2013, respectively.
Tata Power managing director Anil Sardana said, "We have always established that ‘clean and renewable energy’ is the need of the hour and Tata Power will continue its efforts towards this."
The Samana plant comprises 63 wind turbines, each with a 800KW of capacity, and produces a total of 104,970MWh of clean energy a year.
Commissioned in May 2009, the farm helps in reducing harmful carbon emissions by 96,821t annually.
It is expected to generate about 76,000 Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) a year for Tata Power.
The CDM registration allows Tata Power to trade these Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) earned from the project.
Tata Power has another wind project in advanced stages of CDM registration with UNFCCC.
The company currently has a wind power generation capacity of 376MW and solar power generation capacity of 28MW, with further plans to add 150-200MW of wind and 50MW of solar power capacity annually.
