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°E / 22.1316; 82.2920Coordinates: 22°07′54″N 82°17′31″E / 22.1316°N 82.2920°E / 22.1316; 82.2920
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]

Transport

Sipat Super Thermal Power Station is located off the Tatanagar-Bilaspur section of Howrah-Nagpur-Mumbai line.

References

• NTPC Simhadri

External links

• Media related to Sipat Thermal Power Station at Wikimedia Commons

NTPC Power Stations
Thermal	Coal Based Badarpur Barh Bongaigaon Dadri Darlipali Farakka Gadarwara Kahalgaon Khargone Korba Kudgi Lara Mauda North Karanpura Ramagundam Rihand Simhadri Singrauli Sipat Solapur Talcher Talcher Kaniha Tanda Unchahar Vindhyachal Coal Based (Owned by JVs) APCPL BRBCL Kanti Meja NPGC NSPCL NTECL Gas Based Anta Auraiya Dadri Faridabad Jhanor-Gandhar Kawas Kayamkulam Gas Based (Owned by JVs) RGPPL
Hydel	Koldam Loharinag Pala