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 ...
of
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 a ...
,
India
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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 ...
based power plants of
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 ...
(HPGCL).
The
Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract was given to
Reliance Infrastructure
Reliance Infrastructure Limited (R-Infra), formerly Reliance Energy Limited (REL) and Bombay Suburban Electric Supply (BSES), is an Indian private sector enterprise involved in power generation, infrastructure, construction and defence. It is p ...
.
Power plant
The work for a 1,200
MW 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 ...
-fired power plant was awarded during 2007. The total estimated cost of the project is around
₹4,297
crores. The cost of
₹3.19
crore per MW for this project is lowest among all the Thermal power plants in India. Both the units 2x600 MW were commissioned.
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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Faridabad Thermal Power Station
References
Coal-fired power stations in Haryana
Buildings and structures in Hisar district
Energy infrastructure completed in 2010
2010 establishments in Haryana
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