Sipat Thermal Power Station
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 Location of Sipat Super Thermal Power Plant in Chhattisgarh
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| Country | India |
| Location | Bilaspur Chhattisgarh |
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| Status | Operational |
| Owner(s) | National Thermal Power Corporation |
| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | Coal |
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| Nameplate capacity | 2,980 MW |
Sipat Super Thermal Power Station or Rajiv Gandhi Super Thermal Power Station [1] is located at Sipat in Bilaspur district in state of Chhattisgarh. The power plant is one of the coal based power plants of NTPC.[2] The coal for the power plant is sourced from Dipika Mines of South Eastern Coalfields Limited.
The project has an installed capacity of 2980 MW consisting of two stages, stage one which got commissioned late was of 3 units of 660 MW each involving super-critical boilers technology and stage two consisted of 2 units of 500 MW each.PM Manmohan Singh inaugurated the Sipat Thermal Power Plant on September 20,2013.[1]
| Stage | Unit Number | Installed Capacity (MW) | Date of Commissioning | Status |
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| 1st | 1 | 660 | 2011 June | Running |
| 1st | 2 | 660 | 2011 December | Running |
| 1st | 3 | 660 | 2012 June [3] | Running |
| 2nd | 4 | 500 | 2007 May | Running |
| 2nd | 5 | 500 | 2008 August | Running |
| Total | Five | 2980 |
Transport
Sipat Super Thermal Power Station is located off the Tatanagar-Bilaspur section of Howrah-Nagpur-Mumbai line.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Anuja Jaiswal (20 September 2013). PM opens NTPC plant, renames it after Rajiv Gandhi. Times of India. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ↑ Anuja Jaiswal (19 September 2013). Chhattisgarh's new Sipat thermal plant rechristened as Rajiv Gandhi power station. Times of India. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
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