Published On: Mon, Aug 30th, 2010

By 2017 The NTPC Is Planning To Become 75,000 MW Company

To secure fuel supply for its power plant, NTPC may offer upto 49 percent equity stake to Qatar Petroleum in its gas-based project at Kerala. NTPC CMD R S Sharma told reporters in New Delhi on Monday, “We have offered Qatar Petroleum less than 50 per cent stake in our Kayamkulam gas based power station in Kerala”.

The current capacity which the Kayamkulam plant possess is around 350 MW, in the next two years the company is planning to expand it to 1050 MW and further upto 1,800 MW in the forthcoming next two years. The company is planning to form a SPV (special purpose vehicle) in which it would offer stake to Qatar Petroleum for the final and last stage of 1,800 MW extension of the power project. As the Gulf-nation would help in return by bringing gas for the plant, NTPC is keen to get Qatar in Kayamkulam project.

The deal with Qatar Petroleum would give some stability to India’s largest power producer with uncertainty over gas from Reliance Industries’ KG Basin. By 2017 the NTPC is planning to become 75,000 MW Company to achieve it the company needs assured supply of fuel, which include both gas as well as coal. In joint venture with GAIL and Maharashtra State Electricity Board, the company generates about 4,000 MW of electricity from its seven gas-based plants and 1,940 MW from Ratanagiri plant.

For it functional gas based station at Kayamkulam in Kerala, Auraiya and Dadri in Uttar Pradesh, and Kawas and Gandhar (Gajarat), the company is planning a mega expansion of 6,000 MW. For the capacity of this magnitude, the company requires 30 million standard cubic metres of gas almost every day. Currently, NTPC has got seven gas based stations in 350 MW Rajiv Gandhi combined cycle power project at Kayamakulam, 430 MW Faridabad (Haryana), 648 MW Jhanor-Gandhar (Gujarat), 817 MW Dadri (Uttar Pradesh), 645 MW Kawas (Gujarat), 652 MW Auraiya (Uttar Pradesh), and 413 MW Anta (Rajasthan). With an increase in the capacity to over 10,000 MW in the next five years, the company fuel requirement is likely to rise. The current fuel requirement for the company is around 17 MMSCMD.

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