GE Power India Ltd. today announced that it has been awarded four orders by NTPC Limited to supply and install Wet FGD systems for a combined value of INR 1783 crore (USD 247 million).
The four power plant projects are:
• Solapur Super Thermal Power Project – 2×660 MW,
• Tanda Super Thermal Power Project Stage-II – 2×660 MW,
• Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Project -1×500 MW and
• Meja Thermal Power Project – 2×660 MW, by Meja Urja Nigam Private Limited (a JV of NTPC & UPRVUNL).
With these new contracts, GE’s technology for S02 emission control will help NTPC remove more than half a million tons of S02 each year and meet India’s latest thermal power plant emission norms for S02
“This is an important milestone in the country’s progress towards lowering the environmental footprint of its’ thermal power plants,” said Andrew H. Deleone, Managing Director, GE Power India Limited. “NTPC is clearly leading the industry in adoption of emission-control equipment to comply with the new emission standards which is an encouraging sign. GE’s broad emission controls portfolio as well as services solutions that can improve coal power plants efficiency and flexibility and lower environmental impact, can further help India balance growing environmental concerns and the need to provide affordable power to its citizen.”
“The installation of Wet Flue Gas Desulphurization (Wet FGDs) will take 33 months for the first unit and 39 months for the second unit from the date of award of the contract,” the company said in a regulatory filing.
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