NTPC

NTPC has adopted the ‘triple bottom-line’ approach, recognising people, planet and profit as the pillars of corporate sustainability. It recognises that preserving, nurturing and sustaining the environment is critical to our society, economy, business and people. It is actively engaged in reducing its carbon footprints. The company is committed to providing power at least possible economic and environmental costs with its approach of ‘low cost low emissions’. It has developed a sustainable development plan that covers waste management, water management, biodiversity, and promotion of renewable energy.

In 2016 alone, the company generated 263.42 BUs of electricity, which was around 24% of the total power generation in India from nearly 15% of the national generation capacity, underscoring high productivity. It commissioned power projects of 2,255MW aggregate capacity, including 110MW solar projects. Besides this, it started commercial operation in its first hydro project at Koldam with total capacity of 800MW.

Singh believes that increasing efficiency of generation reduces GHG emissions per unit of power. With emphasis on efficiency of electricity generation, the company is all set to adopt ultra super critical technology by improving steam parameters in its latest projects like Telangana Super Thermal Power Project. The plant efficiency of such units is expected to increase by around 8% over that of a conventional subcritical 500MW unit and 3% over super critical units. This is in continuation of its philosophy to only proceed with high efficiency Super Critical and Ultra Super Critical technology based power plants.