Sipat Thermal Power Station

Sipat Super Thermal Power Plant
Location of Sipat Super Thermal Power Plant in Chhattisgarh
Country	India
Location	Bilaspur Chhattisgarh
Coordinates	22°07′54″N 82°17′31″E / 22.1316°N 82.2920°ECoordinates: 22°07′54″N 82°17′31″E / 22.1316°N 82.2920°E
Status	Operational
Owner(s)	National Thermal Power Corporation
Thermal power station
Primary fuel	Coal
Power generation
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
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. Anuja Jaiswal (20 September 2013). PM opens NTPC plant, renames it after Rajiv Gandhi. Times of India. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
2. Anuja Jaiswal (19 September 2013). Chhattisgarh's new Sipat thermal plant rechristened as Rajiv Gandhi power station. Times of India. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
3. "Unit # 3 of 660 MW of Sipat Super Thermal Power Station Stage-I commissioned". National Thermal Power Corporation via Bombay Stock Exchange.

• NTPC Simhadri

External links

• Media related to Sipat Thermal Power Station at Wikimedia Commons