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Sipat Thermal Power Plant

Sipat Super Thermal Power Plant
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Sipat Thermal Power Station is located in Chhattisgarh
Sipat Thermal Power Station
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 is located at Sipat in Bilaspur district in state of Chhattisgarh. The power plant is one of the coal based power plants of NTPC. 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.

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



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