NTPC Group’s installed renewable energy capacity has crossed the 2-GW mark.
This milestone was reached with the full commissioning of NTPC’s 92-mw floating solar power project in Kerala. The project has been built over 480 acres of water reservoir associated with the Central PSU’s Kayamkulam gas power station in Alappuzha district. This is currently the country’s largest floating solar power project.
This floating solar project would generate electricity from more than 3 lakh solar PV modules. This would be sufficient to light around 26,000 households. Around 1,73,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions would be avoided every year during the lifespan of this project, NTPC said.
Currently, NTPC Group has more than 4 GW of renewable energy capacity from 22 projects currently under implementation. Another 5 GW of RE capacity is under tendering.
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Among other green initiatives, work is under progress at Leh on integrated project for mobility where five buses would ply intracity using Green Hydrogen. At NTPC Kawas near Surat (Gujarat), the work for green hydrogen blending with natural gas is currently under progress.