Santaldih Thermal Power Station of West Bengal Power Development Corporation Limited

West Bengal Power Development Corporation Limited

West Bengal Power Development Corporation Limited is a company owned by the Government of West Bengal with the goal to carry on interalia the business of electric power generation and supply in the state of West Bengal, India...

 is a power station

Power station

A power station is an industrial facility for the generation of electric energy....

 with an installed capacity of 480 MW.

Location

Santaldih Thermal Power Station is located at 23.598°N 86.474°E, at Santaldih, in Para (community development block) of Purulia district

Purulia District

Purulia district is one of the nineteen districts of West Bengal state in eastern India. The town of Purulia is the administrative headquarters of the district.-History:...

 in the India

India

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n state

States and territories of India

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 of 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...

. It is located on the Adra-Gomoh branch line of South-Eastern Railway, on the southern bank of Damodar River

Damodar River

Damodar River originates near Chandwa village, Palamau district, on the Chota Nagpur Plateau in the Jharkhand state in eastern India, and flows eastward for about 592 km through the states of Jharkhand and West Bengal to the estaury of the River Hooghly...

. There is a railway station at Santaldih.

Capacity

The installed capacity of Santaldih Thermal Power Station is 4 x 120 MW. The four units were commissioned as follows- Unit 1: 1.1.1974; Unit 2: 16.7.1975; Unit 3: 6.12.1978; Unit 4: 30.3.1981.
STPS has plans to expand capacity by 2 x 250 MW.