Korba Super Thermal Power Plant is located at Jamnipali in

Korba district Korba District is an administrative district of Chhattisgarh state in central India. The headquarter of this district is Korba. History The district is named for the Korwa tribe that inhabits the northern part of Chhattisgarh. Korba was fo ...

in the Indian state of

Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh (, ) is a landlocked state in Central India. It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the seventeenth most populous. It borders seven states – Uttar Pradesh to the north, Madhya Prad ...

. The power plant is one of the

coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when ...

-based power plants of

National Thermal Power Corporation NTPC Limited, formerly known as National Thermal Power Corporation Limited, is an Indian central public sector undertaking under the ownership of the Ministry of Power, Government of India which is engaged in generation of electricity and ...

(NTPC). The coal for the power plant is sourced from Kusmunda and Gevra Mines. The source of water for the power plant is

Hasdeo River Hasdeo River is the largest tributary of Mahanadi River. The river flows in the state of Chhattisgarh. It joins Mahanadi River near Shiladehi (Birra). Hasdeo Bango Dam is constructed across this river. The river originates about above sea level, ...

Capacity

Transport

Korba Super Thermal Power Plant is located on the Champa-Gevra Road branch line.

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NTPC Korba
Coal-fired power stations in Chhattisgarh Korba district Korba, Chhattisgarh 1983 establishments in Madhya Pradesh Energy infrastructure completed in 1983 20th-century architecture in India {{India-powerstation-stub