Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Station is located at Khedar village near Barwala in

Hisar district Hisar district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana, India. Hisar city serves as the district headquarters. Hisar district has four sub-divisions that is, Hisar, Barwala, Hansi and Narnaud, each headed by an SDM. The district is also part of H ...

Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ar ...

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. 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 of

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(HPGCL). The

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(EPC) contract was given to

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Power plant

The work for a 1,200 MW

-fired power plant was awarded during 2007. The total estimated cost of the project is around ₹4,297

crore A crore (; abbreviated cr) denotes ten million (10,000,000 or 107 in scientific notation) and is equal to 100 lakh in the Indian numbering system. It is written as 1,00,00,000 with the local 2,2,3 style of digit group separators (one lakh is e ...

s. The cost of ₹3.19

per MW for this project is lowest among all the Thermal power plants in India. Both the units 2x600 MW were commissioned.

Installed capacity

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Power plant

Installed capacity

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