Five stations of NTPC received the National Awards for Meritorious Performance in Power Sector for the year 2013-14. Dadri Gas(840 MW) received the silver award, Korba(2600 MW) and Ramagundam(2600 MW) received the bronze award, Vindhyachal(4260 MW) and Anta (419 MW) received the certificate of merit. These awards for efficiency and performance in the sector were presented by Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (independent charge) for Power, Coal and New and Renewable Energy.
Present installed capacity of NTPC is 44,598 (including 6196 MW through JVs) comprising of 40 power stations — 17 coal based, seven combined cycle gas/liquid fuel, one hydro, seven joint venture stations (six coal based and one gas based) and eight renewable energy projects. During FY 2014-15, all coal stations of NTPC achieved declared capacity of above 83 per cent. NTPC Coal stations achieved PlF of 80.23 per cent as against national PlF of 64.46 per cent. In FY 14-15 the total income of NTPC increased to `75,362.37 crore, generation to 241.261 billion units with profit after tax at `10,290.86 crore.
The company is committed to generating and providing reliable power at competitive prices in sustainable manner by optimising the use of multiple energy resources with innovative eco-friendly technologies thereby contributing to the economic development of the nation, social upliftment of the society and promoting a healthy environment.
NTPC commissioned its first hydro power project at Koldam recently and has given a green commitment to the Government of India for developing 10,000 MW of renewable energy projects during 2014-19. Concern for the environment is integral to NTPC’s growth strategies which are driven by its environment vision of ‘Going Higher on Generation — lowering GHG intensity.’ NTPC has always invested in latest technologies and best practices in the industry to control the emission levels. The NTPC Energy Technology and Research Alliance (NETRA) is working on various projects pertaining to climate change, waste management, scientific support to stations and reliability of stations002E