{"id":295177,"date":"2019-10-05T12:11:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T06:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295177"},"modified":"2019-10-05T12:11:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T06:41:34","slug":"ntpc-coal-requirement-and-operations-at-its-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ntpc-coal-requirement-and-operations-at-its-units\/","title":{"rendered":"NTPC: Coal requirement and operations at its units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NTPC has recently commissioned the first unit (660MW) of its Khargone TPP (2x600MW). This plant is India\u2019s first ultra-super-critical project with a station heat rate (SHR) of 2,070kcal\/kWh. Notably, it is ~3% more efficient than the super critical ones given the higher steam parameters. Unit-1 is likely to commercialise soon, while unit-2 commissioning is scheduled for Jan\u201920. NTPC organised an analyst visit to this plant. Below are our key takeaways from it.<\/p>\n<p>NTPC has completed trial-run operations at full load for unit-1 on 29th Sep\u201919 and will likely commercialise the unit this month. For unit-2, light up will likely be completed over the next one month with commissioning scheduled for Jan\u201920. Total project cost for the plant is ~Rs 110b (~Rs 83m\/MW) \u2013 excluding FGD. FGD contract of Rs 5.2b has been awarded and likely to commission in Nov \u201920. In terms of PPA, 50% of capacity is tied up with Madhya Pradesh, ~19% with Gujarat and ~10% with Chhattisgarh. Balance is with other states (Maharashtra, Goa) and UTs (Daman &amp; Diu, Dadra &amp; Nagar Haveli).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NTPC has recently commissioned the first unit (660MW) of its Khargone TPP (2x600MW). This plant is India\u2019s first ultra-super-critical project with a station heat rate (SHR) of 2,070kcal\/kWh. Notably, it is ~3% more efficient than the super critical ones given the higher steam parameters. Unit-1 is likely to commercialise soon, while unit-2 commissioning is scheduled for Jan\u201920. NTPC organised an analyst visit to this plant. Below are our key takeaways from it. NTPC has completed trial-run operations at full load for unit-1 on 29th Sep\u201919 and will likely commercialise the unit this month. For unit-2, light up will likely be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}