Faridabad Thermal Power Station is located in the New Industrial Township of the Indian city of
Faridabad
Faridabad is the most populous city in the Indian state of Haryana and a part of Delhi National Capital Region. It is one of the major satellite cities around Delhi and is located 284 kilometres south of the state capital Chandigarh. The ri ...
, from the capital
Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...
. The power plant is one of the
coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen.
Coal is formed when dea ...
-based power plants owned by
Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited
Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited (HPGCL) ( hi, हरियाणा विद्युत उत्पादन निगम लिमिटेड) is the electricity generating company of the Government of Haryana in India. It has ...
. Presently the plant is shut down.
Power plant
Originally, the installed capacity was in 3 units of each. Units 1 and 3 were phased out because of ageing. The power station has been shut down and decommissioned as of 2017.
Installed capacity
See also
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Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram Thermal Power Station
Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram Thermal Power Plant is located at Yamuna Nagar in Haryana. The power plant is one of the coal based power plants of HPGCL. It was jointly constructed by Reliance Energy Limited and Shanghai Electric (China) in a collabora ...
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Panipat Thermal Power Station I
Panipat Thermal Power Station I is located at Khukhrana Panipat in Haryana. The power plant is one of the coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly car ...
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Panipat Thermal Power Station II
Panipat Thermal Power Station II is located at Panipat in Haryana. The power plant is one of the coal based power plants of HPGCL
Power plant
The first four units was bifurcated from the total 8 units of the plant, so that to form Panipat Ther ...
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Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Station
Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Station is located at Khedar village near Barwala in Hisar district of Haryana, India. The power plant is one of the coal based power plants of Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited (HPGCL).
The Engineering, ...
References
Coal-fired power stations in Haryana
Faridabad district
Energy infrastructure completed in 1974
1974 establishments in Haryana
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