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The power plant is one of the coal based power plants of NTPC Limited. [2] In the year 1992, Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board (U.P.S.E.B.) transferred Unchahar Thermal Power Station to NTPC Limited against payment overdue and later on renamed it to Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Plant by NTPC Limited.
NTPC is also developing a joint-venture coal-based power plant 1,320 MW (2x660) with the Bangladesh Power Development Board known as Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company in Rampal, Bangladesh, which is facing tremendous opposition from the people of Bangladesh owing to the plant's dangerously close proximity to the Sundarbans.
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.
One coal plant was given environmental clearance in 2021. [10] Although new plants are unlikely to be built, if more coal is burnt in existing plants it will increase greenhouse gas emissions by India. [11] Here is some list of operating coal-based thermal power plants in India. [12] $ → The retired/scrapped power stations. [13] [14]
NTPC Rihand is situated 75 km away from Renukoot railway station. By personal cab or public transport bus, one can reach Rihand Nagar. Local market outside NTPC township is Bijpur. If one is interested in a bit bigger market, one has to go to Waidhan which is 30 km away from Rihandnagar.
On 14 January 2000, in accordance to U.P. State Electricity Reforms Acts 1999 and operation of U.P. Electricity Reforms Transfer Scheme 2000, U.P. State Electricity Board (U.P.S.E.B.), till then responsible for generation, transmission and distribution of power within the state of Uttar Pradesh, was unbundled and operations of the state sector ...
The NTPC power plant explosion was a boiler explosion that occurred on 1 November 2017 at a newly commissioned 500-megawatt unit of the Feroze Gandhi Unchahar coal-fired power plant. The plant is operated by government-owned National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Limited, in Unchahar, Uttar Pradesh, India. [3] The explosion killed 32 people ...
Subsequently, the Uttar Pradesh government initiates discussions to transfer the project to NTPC Limited, but no substantial progress is made. [6] July 2014 — The state-owned Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam (UPRVUNL) takes over the project, relocating it adjacent to the Bara Thermal Power Station. Construction of the boundary wall ...