Talcher Super Thermal Power Station

Talcher Super Thermal Power Station or NTPC Talcher Kaniha located in Angul district of the Indian state of Odisha is the first mega power plant of India to have an installed generation capacity of 3000 MW. It is one of the coal-based power plants of NTPC. The coal for the power plant is sourced from Lingraj Block & Kaniha coal block of Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. The source of water for the power plant is Samal Barrage Reservoir on Brahmani River.

CountryIndia

Coordinates21°5′18″N 85°4′50″E

StatusOperational

CommissiondateFebruary 1995

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Talcher Super Thermal Power Station
Country	India
Coordinates	21°5′18″N 85°4′50″E
Status	Operational
Commission date	February 1995
Owner	NTPC
Thermal power station
Primary fuel	Coal
Power generation
Units operational	6 × 500 MW
Make and model	ABB BHEL
Nameplate capacity	3,000 MW
External links
Website	www.ntpc.co.in/power-generation/coal-based-power-stations/talcher-kaniha
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The plant supplies power to the Indian states of Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Telangana, as well as Bihar and West Bengal. The East South Interconnection of the Indian power grid starts from NTPC Kaniha and ends at Kolar in Karnataka. This being a DC link is one of its kind in India as until now there are only three installed HVDC systems in India. The southern grid is weakly interconnected to the national grid of India through the Talcher–Kolar HVDC system in the east.