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Thermal power is the largest source of power in India. There are different types of thermal power plants based on the fuel that are used to generate the steam such as coal , gas , and diesel , natural gas .
Ramagundam Super Thermal power station, one of the biggest thermal power stations in India, is a coal based power station situated at ramagundam in Karimnagar District. The station started power generation in 1983. The station generates about 2600 MW of power annually.
The coal required by the power station is supplied by Coal India Limited. [3] 90% of the coal requirement is sourced from indigenous mines and the remaining 10% is imported. [2] Coal is transported to the power plant by Indian Railways. The average plant load factor of Bandel Thermal Power Station for the fiscal year 2011-12 was 47.11%. [2]
The Neyveli Thermal Power Station I has configuration of 600 MW (6x50-MW units and 3x100-MW units). All these units were commissioned between May 1962 and September 1970. The plant is equipped with boilers from the Taganrog Metallurgical Plant , turbines from LMZ and generators from Electrosila , imported from the Soviet Union under Indo-Soviet ...
The company was founded on 7 November 1975 by India's former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as National Thermal Power Corporation Private Limited. It started working on its first thermal power project in 1976 at Shaktinagar—named National Thermal Power Corporation Private Limited Singrauli—in Uttar Pradesh. [10]
Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant is located at Shaktinagar in Sonebhadra district in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. [1] 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 total installed capacity of the plant is 2,340 MW. In the plant, thirty-five thousand to fifty thousand tonnes (34,000 to 49,000 long tons; 39,000 to 55,000 short tons) of coal is used daily for power generation, which is supplied from the Rajmahal coalfield in Jharkhand. Nearly 65 lakh tons of fly ash comes out of the plant every year.
The main power plant and the township is spread over an area of 1,186 acres (480 ha) of land, which includes 12 villages. The then PM, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, had laid the foundation stone of the main plant of stage-1 of NTPC Barh on March 6, 1999. The formal inauguration of its site office and laying of the foundation stone of the training ...