Talcher Super Thermal Power Station
Talcher Super Thermal Power Station | |
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Country | India |
Coordinates | 21°5′18″N 85°4′50″E / 21.08833°N 85.08056°E |
Status | Operational |
NTPC | |
Thermal power station | |
Primary fuel | Coal |
Power generation | |
Units operational | 6 × 500 MW |
Make and model | MW |
External links | |
Website | www |
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Talcher Super Thermal Power Station or NTPC Talcher Kaniha located in
NTPC. The coal for the power plant is sourced from Lingraj Block & Kaniha coal block of Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. Source of water for the power plant is from Samal Barrage Reservoir on Brahmani River
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The plant supplies power to Indian states of Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana as well as Bihar and West Bengal. The East South Interconnection of the Indian power grid starts from NTPC kaniha and ends at Kolar in Karnataka. This being a DC link is one of its kind in India as uptill now there are only 3 installed HVDC system present in India. The Southern grid is weakly interconnected to the National grid of India through the Talcher-Kolar HVDC system in the East.
Capacity
Stage | Unit number | Installed capacity (MW) | Date of commissioning |
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1st | 1 | 500 | 1995 February |
1st | 2 | 500 | 1996 March |
2nd | 3 | 500 | 2003 January |
2nd | 4 | 500 | 2003 October |
3rd | 5 | 500 | 2004 May |
3rd | 6 | 500 | 2005 February |
Total | Six | 3000 |
See also
- Talcher Thermal Power Station, another coal-based power plant in close vicinity which was taken over by NTPC from Odisha State Electricity Board in June 1995.