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Bhilai
Location: Chhattisgarh
Operator: NTPC-SAIL Power Co (P) Ltd
Configuration: 2 X 250 MW
Operation: 2008-2009
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: BHEL
T/G supplier: BHEL
EPC: BHEL
Quick facts: This plant was built to supply electricity to the Bhilai
Steel Works and other SAIL units. Excess output is sold into India's
Western Grid. Unit-1 went commercial on 22 Apr 2009, followed by Unit-2 on 21 Oct 2009.
Photograph courtesy of NTPC-SAIL Power Co (P) Ltd
Posted 14 Feb 2010 |
Chakabura
Location: Chhattisgarh
Operator: ACB (India) Ltd
Configuration: 1 X 30 MW
Operation: 2007
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: Cethar
T/G supplier: Siemens
EPC: Indure
Quick facts: This is a 30-MW CFB unit set up as a pilot project to utilize the by-products of ACB's coal beneficiation business. The plant was commissioned in Feb 2007 at a cost of Rs 991.96mn, financed through debt of Rs 650mn and equity of Rs. 341.96mn.
Photograph courtesy of ACB (India) Ltd
Posted 13 Jun 2012 |
Hirakud Smelter
Location: Odisha
Operator: Hindalco Industries Ltd
Configuration: 1 X 67.5 MW, 3 X 100 MW
Operation: 1994-2008
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: ISGEC John Thompson, ThyssenKrupp
Industries India
T/G supplier: BHEL
Quick facts: The Hirakud smelter and power complex is located in Sambalpur
Dist on the banks of the world’s longest earthen dam, the 25.8km Hirakud
Dam spanning the Mahanadi river. The Hirakud smelter, set up by Indal in
1959, was the country’s second aluminium smelter operating on power
sourced from the hydro power station of the Hirakud Dam. In 1993, Indal
built India’s first CFB captive power plant. Three more steam sets were
added starting about 10yrs later, each supplied by three CFB boilers.
Photograph courtesy of Power
Posted 11 Nov 2009
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Jharsuguda CPP
Location: Odisha
Operator: Vedanta Resources plc
Configuration: 9 X 135 MW
Operation: 2008-2011
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: Shanghai
T/G supplier: Shanghai
EPC: SEPCO No 3
Quick facts: In Feb 2004, Lanco Amarkantak Power issued an RFQ for the EPC
contract for its proposed 250-MW coal-fired plant at Pathadi village in
Korba District. In the event, two 300-MW sets were ordered from Dongfang.
The first unit came online about 2yrs past the original schedule. Total
cost of Phase-I was about $275mn. The project has a 400kV switchyard and a 32km, 400kV tie-line to PGCIL’s 400kV
Korba-Seepat line.
Photograph courtesy of SEPCO No 3
Re-posted 5 Nov 2010 |
Jharsuguda Sterlite
Location: Odisha
Operator: Sterlite Energy Ltd
Configuration: 4 X 600 MW
Operation: 2010-2011
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: Harbin
T/G supplier: Dongfang
EPC: Shandong Electric Power Engineering & Consulting Institute Corp, SEPCO No 3
Quick facts:On 21 Aug 2010, Shri Naveen Patnaik , Chief Minister of Orissa,
dedicated this IPP to the People of Orissa. The total project cost is
estimated to be Rs8,200cr. The Sterlite project has India’s first hydrid
ESP with baghouse, four 150m natural draft cooling towers and two 275m
stacks. Sterlite Energy is a subsidiary of Sterlite Industries, India's
largest non-ferrous metals and mining company, and in turn a subsidiary of
Vedanta Resources plc.
Photograph courtesy of SEPCO No 3
Re-posted 5 Nov 2010 |
Kasaipalli
Location: Chhattisgarh
Operator: ACB (India) Ltd
Configuration: 2 X135 MW
Operation: 2011-2012
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: Cethar
T/G supplier: Harbin
EPC: Cethar, Power Mech Projects Ltd
Quick facts: This CFB plant is on a 250ac site at ACB's coal beneficiation complex in Katghora, Korba Dist, and uses a blend of coal rejects and raw coal. The EPC contract was awarded to Cethar Vessels on 25 Nov 2008 and Unit-1 commissioned on 13 Dec 2011. ACB has a long-term PPA with Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd for approximately 200 MW. PGC granted transmission access throuth the 400kV substation at Sipat 55km from the Kaisaipallia site.
Photograph courtesy of ACB (India) Ltd
Posted 13 Jun 2012 |
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Kharagprasad
Location: Odisha
Operator: Nava Bharat Ventures Ltd
Configuration: 1 X 30 MW
Operation: 2003
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: ??
T/G supplier: ??
Quick facts: The plant supplies a ferro-alloys plant and sells surplus
power to a local distribution company. A 64-MW unit is being added to the
site.
Photograph courtesy of Nava Bharat Ventures Ltd
Posted 22 Jun 2007 |
O P Jindal
Location: Chhattisgarh
Operator: Jindal Power Ltd
Configuration: 4 X 250 MW
Operation: 2007-2008
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: BHEL
T/G supplier: BHEL
EPC: BHEL, Punj Lloyd
Quick facts: This was the largest coal-fired IPP in India at completion. A second phase
with 4 X 600-MW units is on order. The plant is named after Om Prakash
Jindal, the late founder of O P Jindal Group. The associated mine is the
largest in the private sector and it has a 6mn tpy coal washery, also the
largest in the country. The facility has a 7km overland covered conveyor
from the mine facility, the longest in India. The tie-line to the grid is
a 258km, double-circuit 400kV installation built in 1.5yrs. It was built
without any joint-venture with PowerGrid Corp.
Photograph courtesy of Jindal Steel and Power Ltd
Posted 31 Oct 2009 |
Pathadi-I
Location: Chhattisgarh
Operator: Lanco Amarkantak Power Pvt Ltd
Configuration: 2 X 300 MW
Operation: 2009-2010
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: Dongfang
T/G supplier: Dongfang
EPC: MMC Corp, Shapoorji Palonji
Quick facts: In Feb 2004, Lanco Amarkantak Power issued an RFQ for the EPC
contract for its proposed 250-MW coal-fired plant at Pathadi village in
Korba District. In the event, two 300-MW sets were ordered from Dongfang.
The first unit came online about 2yrs past the original schedule. Total
cost of Phase-I was about $275mn. The project has a 400kV switchyard and a 32km, 400kV tie-line to PGCIL’s 400kV
Korba-Seepat line.
Photograph by V A Chakrarthy (Panoramio)
Posted 2 Jun 2010 |
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Raigarh
Location: Chhattisgarh
Operator: Jindal Steel and Power
Configuration: 2 X 21 MW, 2 X 55 MW
Operation: 1994-2004
Fuel: waste coal
Boiler supplier: BHEL
T/G supplier: BHEL, DDIT
Photograph courtesy of Jindal Steel and Power Ltd
Posted 1 Feb 2004 |
Rourkela Phase-II
Location: Odisha
Operator: NTPC-SAIL Power Co (P) Ltd
Configuration: 2 X 60 MW
Operation: 1987-1988
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: Rafako
T/G supplier: BHEL
Quick facts: This is the second phase of a captive power plant at Rourkela
Steel Works. Operations were taken over by NTPC-SAIL power in March 2001.
Photograph courtesy of NTPC-SAIL Power Co (P) Ltd
Posted 14 Feb 2010 |
Sipat
Location: Chhattisgarh
Operator: NTPC Ltd
Configuration: 3 X 660 MW, 2 X 500 MW
Operation: 2007-2012
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: Doosan, BHEL
T/G supplier: LMZ, PMG, BHEL
EPC: Zarubezhenergoproekt
Quick facts :In Jan 2000, NTPC acquired TEC for Phase-I of the Sipat
project in Bilaspur district and a second phase was approved in Oct 2002.
In Dec 2003, BHEL received a contract for the 500-MW sets and these
completed in 2008/09. In Apr 2004, Russia’s Power Machines was awarded the contract for the three 660-MW T/G
sets and Doosan was awarded the boiler contract. In Aug 2004, Korea Exim
Bank and NTPC signed a $3.54bn loan agreement on Sipat Phase-II project,
by far the largest such financing by the bank in India to that date. Coal
supply is from the Dipka and Kushmunda mines of South Eastern Coal Ltd. Approved investment is Rs9456.12Cr for Stage-I and Rs4730.13Cr for Stage-II.
Photograph courtesy of Doosan
Posted 8 Jan 2011 |
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SVP Renki
Location: Chhattisgarh
Operator: KVK Energy & Infrastructure Ltd
Configuration: 1 X 63 MW
Operation: 2010
Fuel: waste coal
Boiler supplier: Wuxi Huaguang
T/G supplier: Hangzhou, Greenesol
Quick facts: This CFB project in Korba Dist was designed to burn rejectd from a captive coal washery along with a 30% contribution of coal from South Eastern Coal Fields Ltd. The investment was about Rs 277cr.
Photograph courtesy of KVK Energy & Infrastructure Ltd
Posted 9 Nov 2011 |
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Talcher STPS
Location: Odisha
Operator: NTPC Ltd
Configuration: 6 X 500 MW
Operation: 1995-2006
Fuel: bituminous coal
Boiler supplier: Stein, BHEL
T/G supplier: ABB, BHEL
EPC: Fouress, Tata Projects
Quick facts: This is India's second largest power plant. Fuel is mainly
from Coal India Ltd’s Mahanadi Coalfield Ltd. Talcher was
originally established by the Government of Orissa and subsequently sold
to NTPC. However, the entire power generated from TTPS is dedicated to the State.
Photograph courtesy of BHEL
Posted 25 Jun 2007 |
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