INTRODUCTION
India’s largest power company, NTPC was set
up in 1975 to accelerate power development in India. NTPC is emerging as a
diversified power major with presence in the entire value chain of the power
generation business. Apart from power generation, which is the mainstay of the
company, NTPC has already ventured into consultancy, power trading, ash
utilisation and coal mining.
The total installed capacity of the company
is 43,143 MW (including JVs) with 17 coal based and 7 gas based stations, 7
joint ventures stations are coal based and 8 renewable energy projects. As
per new corporate plan, NTPC envisages to have an installed capacity of 128 GW
by the year 2032 with a well-diversified fuel mix comprising 56% coal, 16% gas,
11% nuclear energy, 9% renewable energy and 8% hydro power based capacity. By
then, non-fossil fuel based generation capacity shall make up nearly 28% of
NTPC’s portfolio.
NTPC has been operating its
plants at high efficiency levels. Although the company has 17.73% of the total
national capacity, it contributes 25.91% of total power generation due to its
focus on high efficiency.
NTPC
became a listed company in November 2004 with the Government holding 89.5% of
the equity share capital. At present GOI's
holding in NTPC is 75%. The rest is held by Institutional Investors and Public.
