India’s largest energy conglomerate NTPC is on process to expand its 3,000 MW Talcher Super Thermal Power Plant (TSTPP) at Kaniha with addition of 1,600 MW (two 800 mw units), said TSTPS ED NK Kothari.
With this expansion, TSTPS would become the country’s largest power station with ultimate capacity of 4,600 MW. While all other infrastructure facilities are available for the expansion within the present premises of the plant, a process has started to acquire 500 acres of land for ash dyke which is necessary for expansion of the plant.
Addressing a Press conference at Kaniha, Kothari said, “NTPC is gearing for a quantum leap in the power generation in the future with target of 1, 28,000 MW by 2032 with more than 20,000 MW under construction and 20,000 MW under award process”. The current installed capacity of NTPC is 45,548 MW with plan to generate 10,000 MW from renewable energy with focus to reduce carbon emission, said Kothari.
Kothari told that TSTPP of NTPC is the second largest power station of NTPC with installed capacity of 3010 MW( including 10MW PV Solar ) and presently supplying 520 MW power to Odisha.
GM Finance BN Swain, GM (O&M) Anand Khatalkar, GM (Operations) S Ghosh, GM(Maintenance) PK Mohapatra along with senior officials were present.