Country's first AUSC power plant to come up in NTPC's Chhattisgarh station

Advanced Ultra Supercritical is pioneering indigenously developed technology

India’s first advanced ultra-supercritical thermal power plant would be set up in the Sipat station of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) in Chhattisgarh.

The coal-fired project, one of the ambitious plans of the Centre, would have a capacity of 800 Mw. Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) has developed the technology, while power equipment major BHEL will design and manufacture the boiler and other equipment that NTPC would use.

Two years ago, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi had approved the proposal for the research and development (R&D) of AUSC technology for