Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project

Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project is one of four Ultra Mega Power Projects planned by Government of India. It is located in Sasan village in Singrauli district in the state of Madhya Pradesh. The power plant is operated by Sasan Power Limited a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Power . In the initial round of bidding Singapore based Lanco-Globeleq consortium was awarded the letter of intent to develop this project, whereas Reliance Power was second lowest competitive bidder. Later on the project was passed on to Reliance Power since doubts were raised over the technical eligibility of the consortium for executing the project.

Sasan UMPP along with the coal mine is the largest integrated coal-cum-power plant in the World. It is India's first domestic coal-based UMPP. This is a pit-head power project and has been allocated three captive coal mine blocks having a production of 25 million tonnes of coal per annum making these mines among India's largest. With an estimated cost of around Rs 22,000 Crores (US$ 4 billion), this is the single largest investment happened across any industry in India till date. Power generated from the project would be sold to 14 procurers in seven states of India at a levelized tariff. This UMPP will use super critical technology which results in higher operating efficiency and also reduces the carbon emissions thereby making it an environment friendly technology.

Installed capacity

Following is the unit wise capacity of the 3960 MW plant. There are 6 units of 660 MW each.

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