The plant was synchronized with the grid and full load operations were achieved to add around 12 million units of electricity to the grid each day.

National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) contracted BHEL for the main plant package for the STPP stage-IV project.

BHEL has commissioned five 500MW units for NTPC in the last three months and the company has added a total of 2,000MW to the grid in the current fiscal year of 2012-2013 with the commissioning of the Vindhyachal unit.