{"id":66867,"date":"2026-09-07T12:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aakashvaani.in\/?p=66867"},"modified":"2026-09-07T12:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:59:49","slug":"ntpc-korba-six-units-restored-generation-back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aakashvaani.in\/?p=66867","title":{"rendered":"NTPC KORBA: SIX UNITS RESTORED, GENERATION BACK ON TRACK"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>AAKASHVANI.IN<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Korba:<\/span> <\/strong>Generation at NTPC Korba is being restored in a phased manner following the simultaneous tripping of all seven generating units at the 2,600-MW power station on Friday evening due to an electrical fault during testing of a Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) bay breaker.<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two 500-MW units (Units 4 and 5) and one 200-MW unit (Unit 1) were restored within 12 hours of the outage, while another 200-MW unit (Unit 3) was restored within 36 hours.<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The remaining two units \u2014 500-MW Unit 7 and 200-MW Unit 2 \u2014 were also restored on Sunday at 9:20 pm and 8:40 pm, respectively.<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, 500-MW Unit 6 has been under shutdown for biennial planned overhaul since August 25, 2026. The unit is expected to be brought back to the grid by the end of this month.<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">With six units now restored, NTPC Korba has substantially resumed its generation capacity after the disruption. The station comprises four 500-MW units and three 200-MW units, with a total installed capacity of 2,600 MW.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AAKASHVANI.IN Korba: Generation at NTPC Korba is being restored in a phased manner following the simultaneous tripping of all seven generating units at the 2,600-MW power station on Friday evening due to an electrical fault during testing of a Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) bay breaker. Two 500-MW units (Units 4 and 5) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ntpc","category-chhattisgarh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aakashvaani.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aakashvaani.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aakashvaani.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aakashvaani.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aakashvaani.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aakashvaani.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66869,"href":"https:\/\/aakashvaani.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66867\/revisions\/66869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aakashvaani.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aakashvaani.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aakashvaani.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aakashvaani.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}