NTPC, BHEL Partners to Install World’s ‘Most Efficient’ Coal-Fired Power Plant

NTPC has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with BHEL to install a 800-megawatt (MW) technology demonstration plant.

It will be implemented at NTPC’s power plant in Sipat, Chhattisgarh under a joint venture company.

“The demonstration plant shall be based on the advanced ultra-super-critical (AUSC) technology, which marks a significant improvement in operational parameters over contemporary supercritical technology,” said the NTPC release.

The statement further added that once the plant becomes operational, it would result in reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by about 20 per cent as compared to the conventional sub-critical technology.

The statement also added that it would be the most efficient power plant in the world, once the plant becomes operational, resulting in reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by about 20 per cent as compared to the conventional sub-critical technology.

It would also support the Nationally Determined Contributions committed by India as part of the Paris Climate Agreement. “There will be many intangible benefits in terms of large number of spin-off technologies being developed,” NTPC said in the announcement.

The demonstration of the technology is being planned by BHEL and NTPC as the next phase of the programme.