Sipat Super Thermal Power Station is located at
Sipat
Sipat is a small developing town approximately from Bilaspur, the second largest city in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. It has been in the news due to the development of a new power plant by NTPC Limited in that area. The project was start ...
in
Bilaspur district in state of
Chhattisgarh. 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 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.
Transport
Sipat Super Thermal Power Station is located off the
Tatanagar–Bilaspur section
The Tatanagar–Bilaspur section is part of the Howrah–Nagpur–Mumbai line and connects in the Indian state of Jharkhand and in Chhattisgarh. Part of one of the major trunk lines in the country, it passes through an industrial-mining area ...
of
Howrah–Nagpur–Mumbai line
The Howrah–Nagpur–Mumbai line (also known as Mumbai–Kolkata line) is a railway line in India connecting Kolkata and Mumbai via Nagpur. The railway line was opened to traffic in 1900.
Sections
The trunk line has been treated in more deta ...
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Coal-fired power stations in Chhattisgarh
Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh
2011 establishments in Chhattisgarh
Energy infrastructure completed in 2011
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