Solapur Super Thermal Power Station is under construction located at Fatatewadi and Aherwadi village in
Solapur district
Solapur District (Marathi pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, olaːpuːɾ is a List of districts of Maharashtra, district in Maharashtra state of India. The city of Solapur is the district headquarters. It is located on the south east edge of th ...
in Indian state of
Maharashtra. 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
National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPCL).
The water for the power project will be sourced from reservoir of
Ujjani Dam
Ujjani Dam, also known as Bhima Dam or Bhima Irrigation Project, on the Bhima River, a tributary of the Krishna River, is an earthfill cum Masonry gravity dam located near Ujjani village of Madha Taluk in Solapur district of the state of Mahara ...
on
Bhima River
The Bhima River (also known as Chandrabhaga River) is a major river in Western India and South India. It flows southeast for through Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Telangana states, before entering the Krishna River. After the first sixty-five k ...
.
Capacity
The power station has a planned capacity of 1320 MW (2x660 MW). The first unit of Solapur Super Thermal power station was commissioned and declared commercial on 25 September 2017.
References
6. Press Release (2012-06-02). Solapur Destined to become Power Hubs with arrival of NTPC Project
http://www.ntpc.co.in/en/media/press-releases/details/kudgi-and-solapur-destined-become-power-hubs-arrival-ntpc-projects
Coal-fired power stations in Maharashtra
Solapur district
Energy infrastructure completed in 2017
2017 establishments in Maharashtra
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