Coal-Fired Plants in India - Chhattisgarh & Orissa

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

Hirakud Smelter
Location: Orissa
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

Jharsuguda CPP
Location: Orissa
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: Orissa
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

Kharagprasad
Location: Orissa
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 is the largest coal-fired IPP in India. 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. Phase-II is to consist of 2 X 660 MW supercritical sets.

Photograph by V A Chakrarthy (Panoramio)
Posted 2 Jun 2010

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: Orissa
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: 2007-2011
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

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

Talcher STPS
Location: Orissa
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

Abbreviations

Data: industcards, Platts UDI World Electric Power Plants Data Base

Updated 09-Nov-2011

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