merisarkar news service
New Delhi, December 27, 2010
Important milestone: Arup Roy Choudhury
India's largest power producer NTPC has further enhanced its electricity generation capacity and crossed the important milestone of 33,000 Megawatt plus company. NTPC on Sunday has commissioned the seventh 500 Megawatt unit of Korba Super Thermal Power Station. The commissioning took place at 4.15 hours as scheduled. With this, the installed capacity of NTPC group has become 33,194 MW.
With the commissioning of the seventh unit, the total installed capacity of Korba Super Thermal Power Station has become 2600 MW.
NTPC plans to be a 75000 Megawatt company by 2017 and has over 16000 Megawatt capacity under construction at various locations.
NTPC is planning a capital expenditure of Rs. 150000 crore in the next six years to achieve this capacity.
