History
In 1997, the company received clearance from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board to issue preferential shares to US based MNC Investment Corporation for Rs. 400 Crore to help fund its acquisition of the Ahemdabad Electricity Company by purchasing the entire 28.89% stake held by the Gujarat government. This acquisition formed what was then known as Torrent Power AEC Limited. Similarly, after acquiring the Surat Electricity Company in the same deal, Torrent Power SEC Limited was formed.
In 2005, the parent company, Torrent Group floated the company Torrent Power Generation to further expand into the power business. In 2006, the three power-related companies of Torrent Group, Torrent Power AEC Ltd, Torrent Power SEC Ltd, and Torrent Power Generation Ltd were merged to form Torrent Power.
In 2007, Torrent Power signed a deal with the Gujarat Power Corporation for setting up a 1000MW coal-based power plant in Gujarat which is to be operational by 2012.
More recently, in 2009, Torrent Power inked a deal with Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited to franchisee to supply power to parts of Kanpur and Agra then handled by The Kanpur Electricity Supply Company Ltd. (KESCo) and the Agra Circle of Dakshinanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited (DVVNL) for 20 years. The handover has been marred by bad frequent power-cuts by the currently operating electricity boards and threats of state wide strikes by power engineers .
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