| Nearest
railway stations |
Bokaro
Thermal
Bokaro Steel City
Dhanbad |
| Distance
by road |
| Dhanbad
- 55 KM. |
| Nearest
Airports |
Ranchi
Kolkata |
|
Bokaro ‘A’ Thermal Power Station
(BTPS ‘A’) |
|
BTPS
‘A’ is located on the banks of river
Konar in Bokaro district of Jharkhand
State. The original installed capacity
of the Station was 175 MW, having
3 units of 45 MW each and one unit
of 40 MW. BTPS ‘A’ was nation’s biggest
thermal power station in the fifties
of last century. Also it was the first
power station to have a captive coalmine. |
BTPS
‘A’ GENERATING UNITS
|
Gen. Unit |
Name of
Manufacturers |
Original capacity (MW) |
Derated capacity (MW) |
Year of commissioning |
Special features |
|
Boiler |
TG |
|
1 |
CE |
GE |
57.5 |
45 |
Feb.,
1953 |
Units
have twin boilers
All
the units have two stages
Fly
Ash collected by MDC |
|
2 |
CE |
GE |
57.5 |
45 |
Aug.,
1953 |
|
3 |
CE |
GE |
57.5 |
45 |
Oct.,
1953 |
|
4 |
MAN |
MAN |
75 |
40 |
Apr.,
1960 |
. |
|
These units are no longer in operation.
Future Projects
Capacity addition of 1 x 500/600 MW has been planned.
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