India’s state-owned power firm NTPC stated the corporate produced a report quantity of electrical energy on an annual foundation over the previous fiscal 12 months, with the utility’s coal-fired energy stations recording a plant load issue, or capability utilization, of 77%.
NTPC, the previous Nationwide Thermal Energy Corp., in an announcement printed March 31, stated it generated 422 billion models, or 422 TWh, of electrical energy in its most up-to-date 12-month fiscal interval (April 2023 to March 2024), a 6% improve over its earlier output on an annual foundation. The New Delhi-headquartered group owns about 76 GW of put in technology capability throughout 51 energy stations (thermal and renewable), together with 27 coal-fired energy crops with gross technology capability of about 54 GW.
The most recent of these coal-fired models, the 800-MW Unit 2 of NTPC’s 1,600-MW Telangana Tremendous Thermal Energy Venture, entered industrial operation on Feb. 29.
NTPC additionally has a stake in 42 energy crops owned by subsidiaries or as a part of joint ventures. That features 9 coal-fired stations with 8.3 GW of technology capability.
NTPC has a purpose of 130 GW of put in energy capability of all kinds by 2032, together with 85 GW of coal-fired technology, up from 65.4 GW at the moment. The corporate in March signed two separate non-binding agreements with RVUNL (Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam), together with one “to discover alternatives for including supercritical models to the prevailing Chhabra Thermal Energy Plant,” in keeping with a information launch. RVUNL is the government-run power firm for Rajasthan state.
The second settlement between the teams requires improvement of 25 GW of renewable power technology capability, and 1 million tons of inexperienced hydrogen manufacturing.
NTPC on April 1 stated it had gained authorities tenders for 3,445 MW of renewable power capability previously fiscal 12 months.
—Darrell Proctor is a senior affiliate editor for POWER (@POWERmagazine).
