Ukai Thermal Power Station
Country	India
Location	Ukai, Tapi, Gujarat
Coordinates	21°12′36.5″N 73°33′26.23″E / 21.210139°N 73.5572861°E / 21.210139; 73.5572861
Status	Operational
Commission date	Unit 1: March 1976 Unit 2: June 1976 Unit 3: January 1979 Unit 4: September 1979
Operator(s)	GSECL
Thermal power station
Primary fuel	Coal
Power generation
Units operational	2 X 120 MW 2 X 200 MW 1 X 210 MW 1 X 500 MW
Nameplate capacity	1,35 0 MW
External links
Website	gsecl.in
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Ukai Thermal Power Station of the Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Limited, India, is a power station with an installed capacity of 1,110 MW. It is one of Gujarat's major coal-fired power plants, located on the bank of the Tapi river.

Power plant

Ukai Thermal Power Station is located on the banks of the Tapi because of the water resources, along with the hydroelectric power plant with the same name.^[1] Ukai TPS Unit-1 is the first power station unit in India with a capacity more than 100 MW.

Installed capacity

Ukai TPS unit-6 was first unit in GSECL having a capacity more than 500 MW.^[1]

Transport

It is on the Jalgaon-Surat branch line of Western Railway. Coal-based thermal power stations consume large quantities of coal.^[2] For example, the Ukai Thermal Power Station consumed 3,200,000 tonnes of coal in 2006–07.^[3] Around 80 per cent of the domestic coal supplies in India are meant for coal based thermal power plants and coal transportation forms 42 per cent of the total freight earnings of Indian railways.^[4]