Chhattisgarh State Power Generation Company Limited

CSPGL

Type	Government-owned Corporation-PSU
Industry	Electricity generation
Founded	2008
Headquarters	Raipur, India
Key people	Sri P Joy oommen Chairman [1]
Products	Electricity
Website	http://www.cseb.gov.in/cspgcl/index.htm

Chhattisgarh State Power Generation Company Limited (CSPGCL) is the electricity generation company of the Government of Chhattisgarh state in India.

History

Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board was formed in accordance with the Section 5 of the Electricity Supply Act 1948 as per the Notification published in the gazette of the Government of Chhattisgarh dated 15th November 2000. Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board (CSEB) became functional w.e.f. 01.12.2000. Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board has been reorganized into five companies in accordance with the provisions contained in the Section 131-134 of Electricity Act 2003 by the Govt. of Chhattisgarh. Thus Chhattisgarh State Power Generation Company Limited became functional w.e.f. 01.01.2009.^[2]

Generation capacity

The installed capacity of CSEGCL as on 31.07.2010 is 1924.7 MW comprising 1786 MW from Coal based Thermal and 138.70 Hydro electric power stations. and some 6 MW is coming from co-generation sources.^[3]

References

1. ^ http://www.cseb.gov.in/cspgcl/theboard/theboard.htm
2. ^ http://www.cseb.gov.in/cspgcl/aboutus.htm
3. ^ http://www.cseb.gov.in/cspgcl/powergen/installed_capacity.htm