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NTPC Dadri

Thermal power plant in Dadri, India

Field	Value
name	National Capital Power Station
country	India
location	Gautam Budh Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh
image	NTPC Power Station - Aerial View - Dadri 2016-08-04 5757.JPG
image_caption	Aerial view of NTPC power station, Dadri
coordinates
status	O
commissioned	1991
operator	NTPC
th_fuel_primary	Coal-fired, gas-fired
ps_units_operational	1820 MW coal
extra	www.ntpc.co.in

817 MW gas

National Capital Power Station (NCPS) or NTPC Dadri is the power project to meet the power demand of National Capital Region (India). It has a huge coal-fired thermal power plant and a gas-fired plant and has a small township located in Uttar Pradesh, India for its employees. It is located in Gautam Budhh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh about 25 km from Ghaziabad and about 9 km from Dadri. It is nearly 48 km from New Delhi towards Hapur. The township has an area of about 500 acres over all. NTPC Dadri is a branch of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC).

Capacity

NTPC Dadri is a unique power plant of NTPC group which has both coal based thermal plant and gas based thermal plant of 1820 MW and 829.78 MW respectively and a 5 MW solar plant totaling 2654.78 MW.

Coal based

The coal for the power plant is sourced from Piparwar Mines, Jharkhand. The source of water for the power plant is Upper Ganga Canal.

Stage	Unit number	Installed capacity (MW)	Date of commissioning
1st	1	210	1991 October
2	210	1992 December
3	210	1993 March
4	210	1994 March
2nd	5	490	2010 January
6	490	2010 July
Total	Six	1820

Gas based

The gas for the power plant is sourced from GAIL HBJ Pipeline. It also supports HSD as alternate fuel. The source of water for the power plant is the Upper Ganga Canal.

Stage	Unit number	Installed capacity (MW)	Date of commissioning	GT / ST
1st	1	130.19	1992 March	GT
2	130.19	1992 May	GT
3	130.19	1992 June	GT
4	130.19	1992 November	GT
5	154.51	1993 February	ST
6	154.51	1993 March	ST
Total	six		829.78

The total capacity is 2654.78 MW.

References

"NTPC Dadri Power Plant".

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