Sasan_Ultra_Mega_Power_Project
Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project
4th largest power station in India
Sasan Ultra Mega Power Plant or Sasan UMPP is one of the four Ultra Mega Power Projects awarded by the Ministry of Power, Government of India.[1][2] It is located in Sasan village near Waidhan in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh. Sasan UMPP is India's largest integrated power generation and coal mine project with 3,960 MW power plant and 20 MT per year coal mining capacity. It is presently the 4th largest electricity generation power plant in India after NTPC Vindhyachal (4,760 MW), Mundra Thermal Power (4,620 MW) and Mundra UMPP (4,000 MW). The total project value of Sasan UMPP is ₹25,186 crores (₹251.86 Billion).
The plant is estimated to have been one of the ten most carbon polluting coal-fired power plants in the world in 2018, at 27.2 million tons of carbon dioxide, and relative emissions are estimated at 1.4 kg per kWh.[3]