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 1840 MW and 829.78 MW respectively and a 5 MW solar plant totaling 2674.78 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 5 500 2010 January 6 500 2010 JulyTotal Six 1840
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 STTotal six 829.78
The total capacity is 2674.78 MW.
References
External links NTPC Dadri (coal) NTPC Dadri (gas) Facebook page for NTPC Dadri