<CENTER>POWER PLANTS IN INDIA- PSC ASKED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS</CENTER>

POWER PLANTS IN INDIA
Nuclear power plants
Currently, twenty nuclear power reactors produce 4,780.00 MW (2.9% of total installed base)

Power station    State

Kaiga   - Karnataka
Kakrapar  -  Gujarat
Kalpakkam   - Tamil Nadu
Narora   - Uttar Pradesh
Rawatbhata Kota  -  Rajasthan
Tarapur   - Maharashtra
Kudankulam  -  Tamil Nadu

The projects under construction are:
Power station  -  State
Kalpakkam  -  Tamil Nadu
Kakrapar   - Gujarat
Rawatbhata  -  Rajasthan

HYDRO POWER PLANTS :
 
 1. Tehri Dam: on Bhagirathi River, Uttarakhand with Installed capacity: 1,000 MW.
 2. Bhakra nangal Dam: on Sutlej River, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh with In stalled capacity: 1325 MW.
 3. Hirakud Dam: On Mahanadi River, Orissa with the Installed capacity: 307.5 MW.
 4. Nagarjuna sagar Dam: on Krishna River, Andhra Pradesh with Installed capacity: 816 MW.
 5. Sardar Sarovar Dam: on Narmada River, Gujarat with Installed capacity: 1,450 MW.

WIND POWER PLANTS :
 
 Muppandal wind farm - Tamilnadu
 Vankusawade Wind Park - Maharashtra
 Vankusawade Wind Park - Karnataka
 Madhya Pradesh Wind Farm - Madhya pradesh
 Kanjikode Wind Farm - Kerala

THERMAL POWER PLANTS :
 
 Vindyachal power plant - Madhya pradesh
 Talcher power plant - Orissa
 Ramagundam power plant - Andhra pradesh
 Korba power plant - Chhattisgarh
 Dadri power plant - UP
 Singrauli power plant - MP
 Farakka power plant - West Bengal