Sanjay Gandhi Thermal Power Station


Sanjay Gandhi Thermal Power Plant is located at Birsinghpur railway station on Bilaspur-Katni section of SE Central Railway. It is situated at Umaria district of Madhya Pradesh, India. The power plant is one of the coal based power plants of MPPGCL

Power plant

Sanjay Gandhi Thermal Power Station has an installed capacity of 1340.00 MW. The First unit was commissioned in March 1993.
The Water for the plant has been procured from nearby Johila Dam which is spread across 1810 Hectares.
The coal for the plant has been procured by Rail from South eastern Coal Fields.

Installed capacity

Commercial Monitoring Cell

Sanjay Gandhi Thermal Power Station has a Commercial Monitoring Cell which commercially monitors the Profit as well as the Losses of the Power Plant. In order to Automate the work and to compete in the Real Time World with the Deviation Settlement Mechanism of India incorporated by CERC an In-House Commercial Monitoring Software has been developed which shows the Profit/Loss in Real-Time.

Deviation Settlement Mechanism

The Commercial Monitoring Software is designed with respect to the Rules & Regulations of Deviation Settlement Mechanism formed by CERC and a DSM Calculator for offline DSM Calculation is also provided at http://dsm.mppgcl.org/calculator

Average Grid Frequency

Sanjay Gandhi Thermal Power Station is the first power station to provide Moving Average Frequency of running block which is required for calculation of deviation charges of that block at http://dsm.mppgcl.org/freq