The award was received by Shri D. K. Jain, Director(Technical) from Shri Anil Razdan, Former Secretary Power, GOI at a function held in Mumbai on 6-10-2010.
NTPC's Korba STPS and Simhadri STPS jointly' have been declared Winners of the 4th Enertia Awards 2010 – India's Awards for Sustainable Energy & Power under "Category-I : Power Generation Awards – Nuclear, Thermal and Conventional Energy" for their superb performance in power sector as they recorded PLFs of 97.61% and 97.27% respectively for the year 2009-10. Similarly the availability factors were 95.46% for NTPC Korba and 94.38% for NTPC Simhadri in the same period making these two stations of NTPC the best performing Super Thermal Power Plants in the country for the period 2009-10.