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Power Plants – Thermal/Nuclear

• Narora: Is one of the 7 atomic power plants operated by NPCIL. It is Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) of capacity 220X2 MW. Located in Bulandshahr District.
• Dadri: It has a huge coal-fired thermal power plant and a gas-fired plant and has a small township located in Uttar Pradesh operated by NTPC. . It is located in Gautam Budh Nagar district. Receives water from upper ganga canal and Beneficiary States are U.P.,Uttarakhand, Rajasthan,Delhi,Punjab,Haryana,HP,J&K,Chandigarh and Railways.
• Harduaganj Thermal Power Station: is situated in the Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh. It is about 18 km away from Aligarh. the total capacity of the plant is 460 MW .
• Auraiya Power Plant: located at Dibiyapur in Auraiya district . The power plant is one of the gas based power plants of NTPC. The gas for the power plant is sourced from GAIL HBJ Pipeline – South Basin Gas field. Source of water for the power plant is Auraiya – Etawah Canal. Present capacity of the plant is 650 MW another 1400 MW is planned.
• Panki: Panki Thermal Power Station is located at Panki in Kanpur district. It is coal powered station . It has an installed capacity of 220 Mega Watts.
• Unchahar: Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Plant is located at Unchahar in Raebareli district. It is coal based power plants of NTPC coal is obtained from North Karanpura and water from Sarda Sahayak Canal. The total installed capacity is 5×210 MW.
• Paricha – Parichha Thermal Power Station is located at Parichha in Jhansi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Parichha Thermal Power Station has a planned capacity of 1140 MW.
• Obra Thermal Power Station: is situated at Obra in Sonebhadra district in Uttar Pradesh. The plant is 125 km away from Varanasi. Power Station has a capacity of 1382 MW.
• Anpara Thermal Power Station: Uttar Pradesh Anpara Thermal Power Station Anpara Thermal Power Station is situated at Anpara in Sonebhadra district of Uttar Pradesh. It is almost 200 km away from Varanasi. This Uttar Pradesh thermal power station has 5 units each of which are coal-fired stations. The coal requirements of the plant are fed by Kakri, Kharia and Beena coal mines, NCL. The plant has a installed capacity of 1630 MW, which happens to be the highest among all the thermal power stations in UP.
• Singrauli: Super Thermal Power Plant is coal based plant has been formed by NTPC. at the border of UP and MP in Sonbhadra district. Coal from Jayant/Bina Mines, water source Rihand Reservoir. Installed capacity is 2500MW.
• Parichha Thermal Power Station: is situated at Parichha in the Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh. It is 25 km away from Jhansi. This Uttar Pradesh thermal power plant has 1 stage with 2 units. The coal is provided to the plant by BCCL and ECL.
• Tanda Thermal Power Plant Situated at Vidyutnagar in the Ambedkarnagar District of the state of Uttar Pradesh, Tanda Thermal Power Plant is a coal based plant by NTPC generating electricity of 440 MW. North Karanpura Coal Fields supplies the plant with coal while the water is served by the Sarayu River.