Bokaro Steel City Thermal Power Station

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Bokaro Steel City Thermal Power Station is an operating power station of at least 326-megawatts (MW) in Bokaro, Chas, Jharkhand, India. It is also known as Bokaro Works power station.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Plant name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Bokaro Steel City Thermal Power Station	Bokaro, Chas, Bokaro, Jharkhand, India	23.685875, 86.092944 (exact)

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Unit-level coordinates (WGS 84):

• Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4, Unit 5, Unit 6, Unit 7: 23.685875, 86.092944

Project Details

Table 2: Unit-level details

Unit name	Status	Fuel(s)	Capacity (MW)	Technology	Start year
Unit 2	Operating	coal: unknown	55	subcritical	1972
Unit 3	Operating	coal: unknown	55	subcritical	1973
Unit 4	Operating	coal: unknown	60	subcritical	1986
Unit 5	Operating	coal: unknown	60	subcritical	1988
Unit 6	Operating	coal: unknown	60	subcritical	1989
Unit 7	Operating	coal: unknown	36	subcritical	2014

Table 3: Unit-level ownership and operator details

Unit name	Owner	Parent
Unit 2	Bokaro Power Supply Company Pvt Ltd [100%]	Damodar Valley Corp [50.0%]; Steel Authority of India Ltd [50.0%]
Unit 3	Bokaro Power Supply Company Pvt Ltd [100%]	Damodar Valley Corp [50.0%]; Steel Authority of India Ltd [50.0%]
Unit 4	Bokaro Power Supply Company Pvt Ltd [100%]	Damodar Valley Corp [50.0%]; Steel Authority of India Ltd [50.0%]
Unit 5	Bokaro Power Supply Company Pvt Ltd [100%]	Damodar Valley Corp [50.0%]; Steel Authority of India Ltd [50.0%]
Unit 6	Bokaro Power Supply Company Pvt Ltd [100%]	Damodar Valley Corp [50.0%]; Steel Authority of India Ltd [50.0%]
Unit 7	Bokaro Power Supply Company Pvt Ltd [100%]	Damodar Valley Corp [50.0%]; Steel Authority of India Ltd [50.0%]

Project-level captive use details

• Captive industry use (heat or power): power
• Captive industry: Iron & Steel

Ownership Tree

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Background

Bokaro Power Supply Company Ltd (BPSCL), which operates the Bokaro Steel City Thermal Power Station, is a joint venture company of Damodar Valley Corporation and SAIL (Steel Authority of India Ltd.). BPSCL operates and maintains the captive power and steam generation plant at SAIL's Bokaro steel plant.

The coal plant consists of seven units totaling 338 MW, commissioned from 1972 to 2014.

Opposition

In January 2013, political leaders, displaced people, and local residents near the Bokaro Steel City power plant united against the companies building the power plant, Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) and Bokar Power Supply Company Limited (BPSCL). The displaced residents are demanding that the companies develop the peripheral area of the plant to improve their lives. They were promised electricity, roads, water, drains, community hall, playgrounds, and other infrastructure that they never received. In the last few months of 2012, locals had held blockades as well as went into assembly areas to demand for jobs and facilities for displaced people.

For three months up until January 7, 2020, residents of three villages around the Bokaro Steel power plant blocked roads in protest of the ash that has been carried throughout the area. The villagers eventually met with the deputy commissioner of Bokaro, Mukesh Kumar, along with Congress leader, Sweta Singh. The deputy commissioner formed a committee to assess the air pollution problem and submit a report, in return for the protestors to stop the blockade.

Coal ash

As of May 2025, the Bokaro Power Supply Company Limited (BPSCL) had yet to pay the 20.5 million rupee (US$240,000) fine imposed in April by the Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) for pollution of the Garga River. All six of the coal ash ponds at the steel plant and captive coal plant remained filled and contaminated water was overflowing into the river.

Methane Plumes Detected Nearby

Global Energy Monitor researchers analyze satellite-detected methane plumes in order to determine whether they have been observed at or near the site of GEM energy assets. CarbonMapper provides satellite imagery of individual methane plumes and estimates their emission rates at the time of observation. GEM has reviewed many of these plume detections against Google Earth imagery and GEM’s own energy infrastructure tracker data. (A full description of the analysis process is available in the Global Methane Emitters Tracker methodology wiki page.) The following table lists methane plumes which were observed within the footprint of the energy asset or facility (or, in the case of oil and gas extraction areas, within 10 meters of a well).

Table M1: Plume Details

For additional details on this individual plume identification and others, see the Global Methane Emitters Tracker.

Observation date	Satellite data provider	Location of plume origin	Methane emissions rate	Additional plume information
2024-03-01 03:02:59	CarbonMapper, emi20240301t030259p02002-A	23.68322412, 86.08444484	3974.81603 kg/hr	Jharkhand Methane Observation 2024-03-01, 1

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