Talcher Super Thermal Power Station or NTPC Talcher Kaniha located in
Angul district of the Indian state of
Odisha
Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of ...
is the first mega power plant of India to have an installed generation capacity of 3000MW. 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 ...
-based power plants of
NTPC. The coal for the power plant is sourced from Lingraj Block & Kaniha coal block of Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. Source of water for the power plant is from Samal Barrage Reservoir on
Brahmani River
The Brahmani is a major seasonal river in the Odisha state of eastern India. The Brahmani is formed by the confluence of the Sankh and South Koel rivers, and flows through the districts of Sundargarh, Deogarh, Angul, Dhenkanal, Cuttack ...
.
The plant supplies power to Indian states of
Odisha
Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of ...
, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana as well as Bihar and West Bengal. The
East South Interconnection of the Indian power grid starts from NTPC kaniha and ends at Kolar in Karnataka. This being a DC link is one of its kind in India as uptill now there are only 3 installed HVDC system present in India. The Southern grid is weakly interconnected to the National grid of India through the
Talcher-Kolar HVDC system in the East.
Capacity
See also
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Talcher Thermal Power Station
Talcher Thermal Power station is located in Talcher sub-division of Angul district in the Indian state of Odisha Pin.759101. The existing plant was closed on 31 March 2021 with the plans to set up a new plant still in discussion phase. The power ...
, another coal-based power plant in close vicinity which was taken over by NTPC from Odisha State Electricity Board in June 1995.
References
NTPC Talcher Kaniha
{{Mahanadi Basin
Coal-fired power stations in Odisha
Angul district
1995 establishments in Orissa
Energy infrastructure completed in 1995