NTPC awards FGD for 50 GW power generation

• 3 years ago (2020-10-20)
• David Flin

Asia 859 Coal 282

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India’s state-run power giant NTPC has announced that it has awarded contracts for installation of flue-gas desulphurisation (FGD) technologies for its 50 GW thermal power generation capacities, including the Dadri plant where the work is in advanced stages.

At present, the NTPC has a combined installed capacity of 62 910 MW, including 11 755 MW through joint ventures and subsidiaries. The 45 NTPC plants comprise: 24 coal-based, 7 gas-based, 1 hydro, 1 small hydro, 11 solar, and 1 wind-based. Its 25 joint venture stations comprise: 9 coal-based, 4 gas-based, 8 hydro, 1 small hydro, 2 wind, and 1 solar.

The company said NTPC Dadri power plant is striving to become the cleanest coal-fired plant in the country and is complying with all the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) guidelines on emissions. The NTPC Dadri plant has also included co-firing of biomass pellets with coal. The pellets are made of husk or agro-residue which would otherwise have been burned in the fields. More than 8000 tonnes of pellets have been fired in the Dadri boilers.