Vallur Thermal Power Station

Vallur Thermal Power Station
Vallur Thermal Power Plant as viewed from new Ennore Creek road bridge
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CountryIndia
LocationVallur
Coordinates13°14′2″N 80°18′21″E / 13.23389°N 80.30583°E / 13.23389; 80.30583
StatusOperational
Construction beganSeptember 2007
Commission dateUnit 1: October 2010
Unit 2: March 2011
Unit 3: September 2012
Construction cost91.93 billion
OwnersNTPC Limited and TANGEDCO
OperatorNTPC Tamil Nadu Energy Company Limited
Thermal power station
Primary fuelCoal
Power generation
Units operational3 x 500 megawatts (670,000 hp)
Nameplate capacity1,500 megawatts (2,000,000 hp)
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Vallur Thermal Power Station is a power plant located in Vallur, Thiruvallur district, India. The power plant is operated by NTPC Tamil Nadu Energy Company Limited, a joint venture between NTPC Limited and TANGEDCO and has three units with 500 MW each.[1]

In January 2014, the units in the power plant achieved a record generation of 24.09 million units (kWh[2]) of electricity.[3][dubiousdiscuss] The project adds nearly 24 million units a day to the grid. Tamil Nadu is the major beneficiary of power generated from this facility (about 750 MW), while some of it is supplied to Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Puducherry.[4]

The plant will consume 4.62 megatonnes (4,550,000 long tons; 5,090,000 short tons) of coal a year. Coal for the plant will be brought from Orissa through ship to Ennore Port, from where it will be transported by pipe conveyor crossing Ennore Creek.[4]

  1. ^ "Vallur Thermal Power Project" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Get enlightened about electricity". The Financial Express. 20 December 2004. Archived from the original on 8 September 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2009.
  3. ^ PTI (8 March 2014). "Power generation suspended from second unit of Vallur plant". Business Line. Chennai: The Hindu. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference PowerTechnology_VallurPlant was invoked but never defined (see the help page).