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Super thermal power station

Super Thermal Power Stations (STPS) are a series of ambitious power projects planned by the Government of India. With India being a country of chronic power deficits, the Government of India has planned to provide 'power for all' by the end of the eleventh plan.The capacity of super thermal power is 1000 MW and above. This would entail the creation of an additional capacity of at least 100,000 Megawatts by 2012. The Ultra Mega Power projects, each with a capacity of 4000 megawatts or above, are being developed with the aim of bridging this gap.
The STPS were started by Government of India in the 1990s, but met with limited success. The Ministry of Power, in association with the Central Electricity Authority and Power Finance Corporation Ltd., has launched an initiative for the development of coal-based STPS's in India. These projects will be awarded to developers on the basis of competitive bidding.
Ramagundam Super Thermal Power Station, one of the biggest thermal power stations in India, is a coal based power station situated at Jyothinagar in Karimnagar District.
The station started power generation in 1983. The station generates about 2600 MW of power annually. The fuel for the power generation is taken from the South Godavari Coal Fields and water is taken from Pochampad Dam. The power generated from the power plant is shared by the south Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry.

Thermal Power Station

Following are some of the super thermal power station in India:

Sr. No.	City	State	Inst.Capacity
1	Singrauli	Madhya Pradesh	2,000
2	Korba	Chhattisgarh	2,600
3	Ramagundam	Andhra Pradesh	2,600
4	Farakka	West Bengal	1,600
5	Vindhyachal	Madhya Pradesh	3,760
6	Rihand Thermal Power Station	Uttar Pradesh	2,000
7	Kahalgaon	Bihar	2,340
8	Dadri	Uttar Pradesh	2,310
9	Talcher	Orissa	3,000
10	Unchahar	Uttar Pradesh	1,050
11	Simhadri	Andhra Pradesh	1,000
12	Sipat	Chhattisgarh	1000
13	Sipat Thermal Power Plant	Chhattisgarh	1980
14	Mouda (erection phase)	Maharashtra	1000 (2x500 MW)
15	karanpura (erection phase)	jharkhand	1950
16	KOTA	Rajasthan	1241			Total		31,431

Coal Based Power Stations[edit]

With 15 coal based power stations, NTPC is the largest thermal power generating company in the country. The company has a coal based installed capacity of 24,395 MW.
COAL BASED (Owned by NTPC)
STATION STATE COMMISSIONED CAPACITY (MW)

• Singrauli - Madhya Pradesh - 2,000
• Korba - Chhattisgarh - 2,100
• Ramagundam - Andhra Pradesh - 2,600
• Farakka - West Bengal - 1,600
• Vindhyachal - Madhya Pradesh - 3,260
• Rihand - Uttar Pradesh - 2,000
• Kahalgaon - Bihar - 2,340
• NCTPP, Dadri - Uttar Pradesh - 840
• Talcher Kaniha - Orissa - 3,000
• Feroze Gandhi, Unchahar - Uttar Pradesh 1,050
• Talcher Thermal - Orissa - 460
• Simhadri - Andhra Pradesh - 1,000
• Tanda - Uttar Pradesh - 440
• Badarpur - Delhi - 705
• Sipat-II - Chhattisgarh - 1,000

Total - 24,395