NTPC to become 75,000 MW company by 2017

MUMBAI: Power major NTPC Ltd on Wednesday revised upwards its capacity addition programme for the 12th plan period to become a 75,000 MW company from about 26,000 MW now.

The company had last month scaled up its capacity addition target for the 11th plan period of 2007-12 to 21,941 MW from 17,333 MW fixed earlier.

It is now estimated that NTPC's installed capacity would be more than 75,000 MW by 2017 instead of 66,000 MW fixed earlier, the state-run firm informed the Bombay Stock Exchange.

The company has already started work on 23 power plants with a total capacity of 21,941 MW. Of these, 12 are coal-fired projects with a total capacity of 18,940 MW.

Besides, it is working on three gas-based projects with a capacity of 4,550 MW, three hydro projects with a capacity of 1,920 MW and five joint ventures with a capacity of 2,791 MW.

NTPC, India's largest electricity generation company with total installed capacity of 26,194 MW at present, also plans to set up 2,000 MW of nuclear capacity by 2012.