Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board's 500 MW Korba East thermal power plant will begin commercial production from early 2007. Announced in February 2001, this was the first project taken up by the then newly-constituted  Chhattisgarh SEB.

Bharat Heavy Electricals was awarded the Rs.1,572 crore EPC contract to develop the 2x250 MW power plant in April 2004. BHEL committed to develop the coal-fired plant within three years.

The first phase of 250 MW will begin commercial power generation in March 2007 while the second and final unit of 250 mw will begin production latest by May 2007.

Chhattisgarh's current power capacity is 1,405 MW including 1,280 MW from thermal plants and 125 MW from hydel plants.

Background: Chhattisgarh was formed on 1 November 2000 through the bifurcation of Madhya Pradesh. The Chhattisgarh Electricity Board came into existence in early 2001.The Korba East project will be the first power plant to commission after the new state was formed. The project was earlier conceived as a 2x210 MW project but the capacity was revised to 2x250 MW keeping in mind future energy demand.

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