| Talcher Super Thermal Power Station | |
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| Country | India |
| Coordinates | 21°5′18″N85°4′50″E / 21.08833°N 85.08056°E /21.08833; 85.08056 |
| Status | Operational |
| Commission date | February 1995 |
| Owner | NTPC |
| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | Coal |
| Power generation | |
| Units operational | 6 × 500 MW |
| Make and model | ABB BHEL |
| Nameplate capacity | 3,000MW |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
Talcher Super Thermal Power Station orNTPC Talcher Kaniha located inAngul district of the Indian state ofOdisha is the first mega power plant of India to have an installed generation capacity of 3000MW. It is one of thecoal-based power plants ofNTPC. The coal for the power plant is sourced from Lingraj Block & Kaniha coal block of Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. The source of water for the power plant is Samal Barrage Reservoir onBrahmani River.
The plant supplies power to the Indian states ofOdisha, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Telangana, as well as Bihar and West Bengal. TheEast South Interconnection of the Indian power grid starts from NTPC Kaniha and ends at Kolar in Karnataka. This being a DC link is one of its kind in India as until now there are only three installed HVDC systems in India. The southern grid is weakly interconnected to the national grid of India through theTalcher–Kolar HVDC system in the east.
| Stage | Unit number | Installed capacity (MW) | Date of commissioning |
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| 1st | 1 | 500 | 1995 February |
| 1st | 2 | 500 | 1996 March |
| 2nd | 3 | 500 | 2003 January |
| 2nd | 4 | 500 | 2003 October |
| 3rd | 5 | 500 | 2004 May |
| 3rd | 6 | 500 | 2005 February |
| Total | Six | 3000 |
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