Kolaghat Thermal Power Station

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Kolaghat Thermal Power Station is an operating power station of at least 840-megawatts (MW) in Mecheda, Kolaghat, Purba Medinipur (East Midnapore), West Bengal, India with multiple units, some of which are not currently operating.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Plant name Location Coordinates (WGS 84)
Kolaghat Thermal Power Station Mecheda, Kolaghat, Purba Medinipur (East Midnapore), West Bengal, India 22.416565, 87.870984 (exact)

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Unit-level coordinates (WGS 84):

  • Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4, Unit 5, Unit 6: 22.416565, 87.870984

Project Details

Table 2: Unit-level details

Unit name Status Fuel(s) Capacity (MW) Technology Start year Retired year
Unit 1 retired coal: bituminous 210 subcritical 1990 2022
Unit 2 retired coal: bituminous 210 subcritical 1986 2022
Unit 3 operating coal: bituminous 210 subcritical 1984
Unit 4 operating coal: bituminous 210 subcritical 1995
Unit 5 operating coal: bituminous 210 subcritical 1991
Unit 6 operating coal: bituminous 210 subcritical 1994

Table 3: Unit-level ownership and operator details

Unit name Owner Parent
Unit 1 The West Bengal Power Development Corp Ltd [100%] The West Bengal Power Development Corp Ltd [100.0%]
Unit 2 The West Bengal Power Development Corp Ltd [100%] The West Bengal Power Development Corp Ltd [100.0%]
Unit 3 The West Bengal Power Development Corp Ltd [100%] The West Bengal Power Development Corp Ltd [100.0%]
Unit 4 The West Bengal Power Development Corp Ltd [100%] The West Bengal Power Development Corp Ltd [100.0%]
Unit 5 The West Bengal Power Development Corp Ltd [100%] The West Bengal Power Development Corp Ltd [100.0%]
Unit 6 The West Bengal Power Development Corp Ltd [100%] The West Bengal Power Development Corp Ltd [100.0%]

Financing

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Background

The Kolaghat Thermal Power Station (KTPP) was established during India's sixth plan period (1980-85). When the plant first became operational KTPP had only one 210 MW unit. The plant's first expansion took place in 1985 when an additional five 210 MW units were added in two stages. Currently the plant has a total of six units with a capacity of 1260 MW. The units were commissioned in two stages during the period of 1984 to 1995.[1]

West Bengal Power Development Corporation was reportedly rebuilding its three oldest units at an estimated cost of 1000 crore. As of 2011, the West Bengal government was in talks with the World Bank for partial funding of the project. If funding was fulfilled, construction could begin as early as 2014. Project officials expected updates to the three units to be completed 2017.[1]

Units 1 and 2 reportedly retired by March 2022.[2]

Citizen opposition

In October 2007, Greenpeace India activists scaled a 250 foot smokestack spewing carbon dioxide at the Kolaghat coal fired power station. They paint the message "SMOKING KILLS" The activists had been charged with criminal trespass and violation of the West Bengal Maintenance of Public Order Act of 1972. The West Bengal district court denied bail requests from the activists' who have been remanded in a correctional jail.[3][4]

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