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Rayalaseema Thermal Power Station is located at Yerraguntla (Md) in
Kadapa Kadapa is a city in the southern part of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is located in the Rayalaseema region, and is the district headquarters of YSR Kadapa district. It is located south of the Penna River. The city is surrounded on three sides by ...
(Dist) in
Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (ISO 15919, ISO: , , AP) is a States and union territories of India, state on the East Coast of India, east coast of southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, seventh-largest state and th ...
. 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 Chemical element, elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal i ...
based power plants of
APGENCO Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation Limited is power generating organization in Andhra Pradesh. It undertakes operation and maintenance of the power plants and also setting up new power projects alongside upgrading the project's capacity ...
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Capacity

The Thermal Power Station has a capacity of 1650 MW; 5 units of 210 MW each and 1 units of 600 MW.


Power Plant

Rayalaseema Thermal Power Plant was developed under 3 stages namely stage I, II, III and IV. The station is performing well in the recent years by achieving high plant load factor. It stood first in country during 1998–99, 2002–03, 2003–04 and second during 1999–2000, 2001–02. The station has received Meritorious productivity awards for six consecutive years and Incentive award for seven consecutive years.
BHEL Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) is an Indian central public sector undertaking and the largest government-owned electrical/ industrial technology company. It is owned by the Government of India, with administrative control under ...
commissioned stage IV unit 1x600MW in March 2018 leading to total installed capacity of RTPP to 1650MW.


References

Coal-fired power stations in Andhra Pradesh Buildings and structures in Kadapa district 1994 establishments in Andhra Pradesh Energy infrastructure completed in 1994 20th-century architecture in India {{India-powerstation-stub