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The public sector power generation major, NTPC, expects to add 4,160 MW and 4,298 MW respectively in the current year and the next.
In the current year, the company will incur capital expenditure of Rs 20,995 crore. The projects that NTPC is confident of completing this year are: two units of 500 MW each at Mouda, Rihand and Vidhyachal and one unit of 500 MW each at Vallur and Jhajjar, and one unit of 660 MW at Sipat.
On Wednesday, the company has under its belt total power generation capacity of 37,014 MW, of which 34,416 MW is commercially operational.
NTPC told analysts in a conference call that it had opened two tenders for buying 9 million tonnes of coal. The company consumed 141 million tonnes of coal last year. The mood in the company is upbeat about availability of coal, and consequently, about higher generation. In the last quarter of the previous year, supply of coal (38.6 million tonnes) exceed contracted quantity. The company expects this trend to continue into the first (current) quarter of this year.
NTPC lost 7.8 billion units of generation as enough coal was not available. The loss in generation was higher than in the previous year at 5.1 billion units.
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