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Essar Salaya Power Plant is a coal-based thermal power plant located near Essar Refinery at Vadinar in Jamnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat. The power plant is operated by the Essar Energy.

Essar Refinery

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Vadinar village in Gujarat, India

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The coal for the plant will be sourced from captive mine owned by Essar Energy in Indonesia. [1]

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Capacity

It has an installed capacity of 1200 MW (2x600 MW).

Unit No.Generating CapacityCommissioned onStatus
1600 MW2012 AprilRunning [2]
2600 MW2012 JuneRunning

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References

  1. "Power". Essar.com. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-10-06. Retrieved 2014-03-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)