Under development by Sasan Power, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Power, the Sasan plant is claimed to be the largest integrated power plant and coal mining project in the world.
The commissioning of the third unit takes the power plant’s operating capacity to 1980MW, while the remaining three units are in advanced stages of construction and are scheduled to be commissioned over the next few months.
The first and second units started power generation in March and December 2013, respectively.
The Sasan UMPP is a pit-head coal-based power plant, and has been allocated three captive coal mine blocks, Moher, Moher Amlori extension and Chhatrasal.
Coal production already started from the 20 million tonnes Moher and Moher-Amlohri coal mines associated with the power project.
With the new unit, Reliance Power’s generation capacity has increased to 3,865MW which includes 3,780MW of thermal capacity and 85MW of renewable energy based capacity.
