Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project

View of all 6 units of Sasan UMPP

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 25,000 Crores (US$ 4 billion), this is the single largest investment happened in Power 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 compared to older plants.

Sasan Coal Mines

Sasan UMPP is a pit-head power project and has been allocated three captive coal mine blocks – Moher, Moher Amlori extension and Chhatrasal – which have reserves in excess 700 million tones. Plans for development of these mines were prepared and approval for the same was got in a record period of seven months. The approved mine plan of all three mines put together envisages production of 25 million tonnes of coal per annum making these mines among India's largest.

Sasan UMPP along with the coal mine would on completion become the largest integrated coal-cum-power plant in the country. The scale of the project can be better appreciated from the fact the project and coal mine together involve almost 10,000 acres of land of which almost 7,000 acres would be coal mines.

Installed capacity

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

Stage	Unit Number	Installed Capacity (MW)	Date of Commissioning	Status
Stage I	1	660	2013 March	Running
Stage I	2	660	2013 December	Running ^[1]
Stage I	3	660	2014 March	Running ^[2]
Stage I	4	660	2014 May	Running ^[3]
Stage I	5	660	2014 Dec	Running^[4]
Stage I	6	660	26 Mar 2015	Running^[5]

References

Power stations and organizations of Madhya Pradesh

Power stations	Amarkantak Thermal Power Station Anuppur Thermal Power Project Bansagar Dam Bargi Dam Bina Thermal Power Plant Dada Dhuniwale Thermal Power Plant Essar Mahan Power Plant Gadarwara Super Thermal Power Station Gandhi Sagar Dam Indirasagar Dam Jhabua Thermal Power Project Khargone Super Thermal Power Station Madikheda Dam Omkareshwar Dam Sanjay Gandhi Thermal Power Station Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project Satpura Thermal Power Station Shree Singaji Thermal Power Project Vindhyachal Thermal Power Station

Organizations	National Thermal Power Corporation NHPC Limited Madhya Pradesh Power Generation Company Limited Power Grid Corporation of India Power System Operation Corporation

Related topics	Electricity sector in India States of India by installed power capacity Indian states ranking by households having electricity

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