Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Station

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Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Plant
Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Station
CountryIndia
Location Unchahar, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh
Coordinates 25°54′52″N81°19′36″E / 25.91444°N 81.32667°E / 25.91444; 81.32667
StatusOperational
Commission date 1988
Operator(s) NTPC
Thermal power station
Primary fuel Coal
Power generation
Units operational5
Nameplate capacity 1550.00 MW
External links
Website www.ntpc.co.in/power-generation/coal-based-power-stations/unchahar

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Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Plant is located at Unchahar in Raebareli district in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. [1] The power plant is one of the coal based power plants of NTPC Limited. [2] In the year 1992, Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board (U.P.S.E.B.) transferred Unchahar Thermal Power Station to NTPC Limited against payment overdue and later on renamed it to Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Plant by NTPC Limited.

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Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Plant has an installed capacity of 1,550 megawatts (2,080,000 hp), inclusive of Fourth Stage, that got operational in April 2017. The First unit was commissioned in November 1988. The coal for the plant is derived from North Karanpura Coalfield. The water source is from Sarda Sahyak Canal. [3]

Installed capacity

StageUnit NumberInstalled Capacity (MW)Date of CommissioningStatus
First12101988 NovemberRunning
First22101989 MarchRunning
Second32101999 JanuaryRunning
Second42101999 OctoberRunning
Third52102006 SeptemberRunning
Fourth65002017 AprilRunning [4]

2017 Boiler explosion

A massive explosion ripped a boiler at National Thermal Power Limited (NTPC) Unchahar plant in Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli district on Wednesday, 1 November 2017, killing at least 25 people and injuring nearly 100. The casualties have risen to 32 by Friday. Doctors warned the toll was likely to rise as more than a dozen contractual laborers were battling for life with more than 90 percent burn wounds. [5]

In what is one of the worst industrial disasters in eight years (after Jaipur's Indian Oil fire in 2009), local emergency response was overwhelmed with the scale of disaster. Help was sought from neighboring town and cities including Lucknow and Allahabad. Almost all the injured have been transferred to hospitals in state capital, Lucknow for better treatment. [6]

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