Sipat Thermal Power Station
Sipat Super Thermal Power Station or Rajiv Gandhi Super Thermal Power Station is located at Sipat in Bilaspur district in state of Chhattisgarh. The power plant is one of the coal 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.
Stage | Unit Number | Installed Capacity | Date of Commissioning | Status |
1st | 1 | 660 | 2011 June | Running |
1st | 2 | 660 | 2011 December | Running |
1st | 3 | 660 | 2012 June | Running |
2nd | 4 | 500 | 2007 May | Running |
2nd | 5 | 500 | 2008 August | Running |
Total | Five | 2980 | | |
Transport
Sipat Super Thermal Power Station is located off the Tatanagar-Bilaspur section of Howrah-Nagpur-Mumbai line.