Singrauli Super Thermal Power Station

Singrauli
Super Thermal Power Station
Map
CountryIndia
LocationShaktinagar, Uttar Pradesh
Coordinates24°06′19″N 82°42′23″E / 24.105168°N 82.706384°E / 24.105168; 82.706384
StatusOperational
Commission date1986
OwnerNTPC
Thermal power station
Primary fuelCoal
Power generation
Units operationalStage - I: 5 × 200 MW
Stage -II: 2 × 500 MW
Solar PV: 15 MW
Nameplate capacity2,015 MW
External links
Websitewww.ntpc.co.in

Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant is located at Shaktinagar in Sonebhadra district in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.[1] The power plant is the first power plant of NTPC.[2][3] It sources coal from Jayant and Bina mines and water from Rihand Reservoir. The states benefitting from this power plant are Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh and the Union Territories of Delhi, Chandigarh and Jammu and Kashmir. An investment worth 11,907 million (US$140 million) has already been cleared. It even gets international assistance from IDA.[4][5]

ON 31 December 2014, a 15 MW solar PV was commissioned at NTPC SIngrauli.[6][7] An 8 MW small hydro CW discharge plant has been constructed on discharge canal.[8]

  1. ^ "NTPC in Singrauli Region". Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  2. ^ List of NTPC owned Coal based power plants (in order of date of commission)
  3. ^ History of NTPC
  4. ^ NTPC Singrauli Details
  5. ^ "Singrauli CW Discharge". Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  6. ^ "NTPC Ltd commissions 15 MW Solar PV Power Station at Singrauli". Equity Bulls. 4 January 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  7. ^ "Renewable Energy & Distributed Generation". Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  8. ^ "Hydro Based Power Projects". Retrieved 26 June 2016.