Koradi Thermal Power Station
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Koradi Thermal Power Station (KTPS) is located at Koradi near Nagpur
Nagpur
Nāgpur is a city and winter capital of the state of Maharashtra, the largest city in central India and third largest city in Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune...

, Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

. The power plant is one of the four major power plants in Vidarbha
Vidarbha
Vidarbha is the eastern region of Maharashtra state made up of Nagpur Division and Amravati Division. Its former name is Berar . It occupies 31.6% of total area and holds 21.3% of total population of Maharashtra...

 – a power surplus region of India. The power station
Thermal power station
A thermal power station is a power plant in which the prime mover is steam driven. Water is heated, turns into steam and spins a steam turbine which drives an electrical generator. After it passes through the turbine, the steam is condensed in a condenser and recycled to where it was heated; this...

 began operations in 1974 and is one of the nine active power stations operated by Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited (MahaGenco), a subsidiary of Government of Maharashtra
Government of Maharashtra
Government of Maharashtra is the government for the state of Maharashtra in Western India.It is an elected government with 288 MLAs elected to the legislative assembly for a 5 year term.-Ministers:...

 owned Maharashtra State Electricity Board
Maharashtra State Electricity Board
Maharashtra State Electricity Board is a state-owned electricity regulation board operating within the state of Maharashtra in India. The MSEB was formed on June 20, 1960 under Section 5 of the Electricity Act, 1948...

 (MSEB). The plant operates 7 units and has a total power generation capacity of 1080 MW
Watt
The watt is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units , named after the Scottish engineer James Watt . The unit, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion.-Definition:...

. A proposed 440 kilovolt high power transmission line
Electric power transmission
Electric-power transmission is the bulk transfer of electrical energy, from generating power plants to Electrical substations located near demand centers...

 from Koradi to Bhusawal
Bhusawal
Bhusawal or Bhusaval is a city and a municipal council in Jalgaon district in the state of Maharashtra, India.-Geography:Bhusawal is located at . It has an average elevation of 209 metres ....

 would join Nagpur with Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

. KTPS campus also contains training institute of MahaGenco for middle and senior level engineers, technicians and other staff.

Power station

KTPS is located on the northern side of Nagpur and is spread across an area of 30,337 km2. Coal for KTPS comes from various nearby collieries of Western Coal Fields, Nagpur (WCL) located at Silewara, Pipla, Patansaongi, Kamptee, Inder, Walni, Gondegaon and Saoner
Saoner
Saoner is a town and tehsil headquarter in north part of Nagpur district in state of Maharashtra, India. The town is governed by Saoner municipal council. It is from Nagpur city. It is well connected to Nagpur by road and a narrow gauge railway...

. These are at an average distance of 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away. The plant approximately requires 16,000 to 17,000 tonnes of coal per day.
The water for KTPS comes from water reservoir of nearby Totaladoh
Totaladoh
Totaladoh is a census town in Nagpur district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.-Demographics: India census, Totaladoh had a population of 2336. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Totaladoh has an average literacy rate of 65%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male...

 hydroelectric power station. Also, Nagpur Municipal Corporation
Nagpur Municipal Corporation
-Tasks:NMC is responsible for administering and providing basic infrastructure to the city.# Building and Maintenance of roads, streets and flyovers.# Public Municipal schools# Water purification and supply# Hospitals# Street lighting...

 (NMC) provides treated water from its sewerage treatment plant. According to MSEB, the average unit cost of power generation at KTPS is 6.28 paise
Paisa
The paisa is a monetary unit in several countries. Linguistic variants of paisa include poisha and baisa . In India, Nepal and Pakistan, the paisa currently equals of a rupee. In Bangladesh, the poisha equals of a Bangladeshi taka...

/kW·h at 70 percent load factor while it is 13.52 paise/kW·h at 25 percent load factor. The average cost for transmitting this power to Mumbai is 1.26 paise/kW·h.

Since its commissioning, KTPS saw expansion in stages. First unit of 115 MW began in 1974. Later, three more units each of 115 MW, were added between 1975 and 1976 while 200 MW unit was added in 1978. Two more units, of 210 MW each, between 1982 and 1983. MSEB has finalized further expansion by increasing the capacity of 3 units to 660 MW thereby taking the total capacity of KTPS to 1560 MW. The work is expected to finish by 2014. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) is expected to get equity participation by supplying important equipments in the expansion plan.

In order to reduce air pollution the plant's units are equipped with electrostatic precipitator
Electrostatic precipitator
An electrostatic precipitator , or electrostatic air cleaner is a particulate collection device that removes particles from a flowing gas using the force of an induced electrostatic charge...

s.

Thermal Power Research Center

The Central Power Research Institute
Central Power Research Institute
Central Power Research Institute was established by the Government of India in 1960 with Head Quarters in Bangalore. The Institute was re-organized into an autonomous Society in the year 1978 under the aegis of the Ministry of Power, Government of India...

 (CPRI) of Government of India
Government of India
The Government of India, officially known as the Union Government, and also known as the Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of the union of 28 states and seven union territories, collectively called the Republic of India...

, which serves as regulating body for testing of instruments and uploading of licenses in India, is going to setup a Thermal Research Centre (TRC) at Koradi. However, the KTPS expansion plans have created a problems in land acquisition for TRC.

Disruptions

On February 27, 2005 a major fire broke out at KTPS and had to be shut down causing blackout
Power outage
A power outage is a short- or long-term loss of the electric power to an area.There are many causes of power failures in an electricity network...

s in most districts of Marathawada. In May 2007, the power plant was shutdown due a strike by workers.

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