By Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI/RANCHI/BHUBANESWAR: The country is witnessing a sharp increase in power demandand NTPC is making all efforts for meeting demand as per the grid requirement. NTPC has geared up to meet the increasing demand and the generation from NTPC group stations has registered a 23% growth compared to the previous year.
To meet the increase in demand, following actions have been taken:
• Under flexible utilization of coal policy, NTPC is arranging coal at the stations where the stock position is critical.
• Continuously coordinating with Coal India and Railways for augmenting coal supply at critical stations and diverting rakes wherever required.
• Augmenting 2.7 Lakh MT import coal left out from the contracts placed earlier.
• Darlipalli Unit#2 (800 MW) was put in operation and Commercial operation of the Unit is being done w.e.f 01-09-2021. The plant is a pit-head station, and the coal is being fed from captive mine of NTPC (Dulanga).
• Increasing coal production from all captive mines of NTPC.
• The states are also requested to schedule offtake from the gas Stations. In order to plan for making arrangement for gas for generator companies, States are requested to schedule power at least for a week.
NTPC has been supplying power to the state of Bihar as per the schedule provided by various stations of NTPC and its JVs. During the fortnight from 14.08.2021 to 28.08.2021, on an average, NTPC has supplied around 73 MU Power on daily basis to Bihar, which constitutes around 62% of the total consumption of Bihar during the same period.
The peak demand months for the FY 2021-22, as declared by Eastern Region Power Committee, at the beginning of the year were April, May and June. Accordingly overhauling in some units were planned during this period to align with the low demand period. These units will gradually be taken back in service.
Further, Unit#2 of NTPC’s Darlipalli station in Odisha is being declared on commercial operation from 01-09-2021 and Bihar will get nearly 94 MW share from this plant.
