Sipat Super Thermal Power Station is located at Sipat in Bilaspur district in the state of Chhattisgarh. It is one of the coal based power plants of NTPC. The coal for the 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 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 (MW) 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 RunningTotal 5 2980
Transport Sipat Super Thermal Power Station is located off the Tatanagar–Bilaspur section of Howrah–Nagpur–Mumbai line.
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