NTPC Dadri stage II dedicated to the nation

Government has dedicated the 980 MW Stage-II of National Capital Thermal Power Project, Dadri to nation. The 980 MW project would meet the power requirement of Commonwealth Games. Later, power generated from NTPC Dadri's Stage –II will be supplied to Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.

The Stage-I of the ‘National Capital Thermal Power Project, Dadri’ was already producing 840 MW (through 4 Units, each of 210 MW capacity) and now with the dedication of this 980 MW (through 2 Units, each of 490 MW capacity) Stage-II, the project has achieved a total capacity of 2637 MW as its Gas Based Station is producing 817 MW.
NTPC- Dadri is country's only project having coal and gas based project with total installed capacity of 2637 MW from Coal Based Project consisting of stage I, 840 MW (210 x 4 ) and stage II ,980 MW (490MW X 2) and a 817 MW Gas station.
The project was launched by UPA Chairperson Smt Sonia Gandhi in the presence of Union Minister of Power Sushilkumar Shinde.