Durgapur Thermal Power Station

Owner(s)DVCOperator(s)Thermal power stationPrimary fuelCoalPower generation Units operational350.00 MWNameplate capacityExternal linksWebsitewww.dvcindia.org

Durgapur Thermal Power Station is located near Waria Railway Station, 6 km from Durgapur railway station in West Bengal. The power plant is one of the coal based power plants of DVC.

Power plant

DTPS was set up in the sixties of last century with two 75 MW units and one 140 MW unit in the first stage. Another 210 MW unit was added to the plant in the early eighties to augment supplies to the growing industrial demand. The first 2 units of the Station had to be de-commissioned after a fire accident in 1985.^[1]

Installed capacity

Stage	Unit Number	Installed Capacity (MW)	Date of Commissioning	Status
First	1	75	NA	Closed
First	2	75	NA	Closed
First	3	140	December, 1966	Closed
Second	4	220 (Output 210)	September, 1982	Closed

U#3 has ABL make boilers and GE make turbine-generators, while U#4 has boiler, turbine and generator are of BHEL make.

See also

• Chandrapura Thermal Power Station
• Bokaro Thermal Power Station B
• Mejia Thermal Power Station

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