Avantha Korba West Power Station

Avantha Korba West Power Station is a power project located near Kirorimalnagar railway station in Raigarh district in Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The power plant is one of the coal based power plants of Korba West Power Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gautam Thapar led Avantha Group.^[1]

BHEL is EPC contractor for this power plant. Coal for the power plant is sourced from South Eastern Coalfields.

Capacity

Its planned capacity is 1200 MW (2x600 MW).

Unit Number	Capacity (MW)	Date of Commissioning	Status
1	600	2013 October	Running.^[2]
2	600		under construction.

Rs.4200 crore deal between Avantha Group and Adani Power and extortion calls by insider for ‘protection money’ for this deal

Extortion calls in April 2015 for ‘protection money’ for the Rs. 42 000 crore acquisition agreement between Avantha Group and Adani Power Limited for Avantha Korba West Power Station has led to the arrest of a senior corporate executive of a Thapar-Avantha Group company. ^[3]--Lalit Shastri 07:53, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

References

Power stations and organizations of Chhattisgarh

Power stations	Avantha Korba West Power Station DBPL Baradarha Thermal Power Station Dr Shyama Prasad Mukharjee Thermal Power Station Hasdeo Thermal Power Station Jindal Tamnar Thermal Power Plant Korba Super Thermal Power Plant Korba Thermal Power Station KSK Mahanadi Power Project Marwa Thermal Power Plant NSPCL Bhilai Power Plant Sipat Thermal Power Plant LARA Super Thermal Power Project

Organizations	NTPC Limited Chhattisgarh State Power Generation Company Limited PowerGrid Corporation of India Power System Operation Corporation Limited

Related topics	Electricity sector in India States of India by installed power capacity

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