Mejia Thermal Power Station is located at 35 km from Durgapur city in West Bengal

West Bengal

West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...

. The power plant is one of the coal

Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...

 based power plants of DVC

Damodar Valley Corporation

The Damodar Valley Corporation, popularly known as DVC, is the first multipurpose river valley project of independent India. The corporation came into being on July 7, 1948 by an Act of the Constituent Assembly of India . It is modelled on the Tennessee Valley Authority of the USA. Jawaharlal...

. Commissioned on 1996, MTPS is the largest thermal power plant, in terms of generating capacity in the state of West Bengal as well as among other DVC power plants.

Power Plant

Mejia Thermal Power Station has an installed capacity of 2340 MW. The plant has 8 units under operation.. The individual units has the generating capacity as follows:

Unit No.	Generating Capacity	Commissioned on
U#1	220 MW	1996
U#2	220 MW	1998
U#3	220 MW	1999
U#4	220 MW	2005
U#5	250 MW	2008
U#6	250 MW	2009
U#7	500 MW	2010
U#8	500 MW	2010

Units 1 through 6 are collectively named MTPS- A, while the extension work of 2×500 MW Units 7 & 8 are called MTPS-B. All the units have BHEL make boilers, turbines and generators installed in them.

See also

• Chandrapura Thermal Power Station
• Bokaro Thermal Power Station B
  Bokaro Thermal Power Station B
  Bokaro Thermal Power Station B is located at Bokaro in Jharkhand. The power plant is one of the coal based power plants of DVC-Power plant:Bokaro Thermal Power Station B has an installed capacity of 630 MW. The First unit was commissioned in March 1986. The station is located on the banks of the...
  
  
• Durgapur Thermal Power Station
  Durgapur Thermal Power Station
  Durgapur Thermal Power Station B is located near Waria Railway Station, 5 km from Durgapur city in West Bengal. The power plant is one of the coal based power plants of DVC-Power plant:...