The state-run power producer National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) will allocate 500 mw of green energy to various states to help them meet the Renewable Energy Purchase Obligation (RPO) as mandated in the National Tariff Policy.
?We are going to allocate about 500 mw of renewable energy that we are now generating from solar, wind and small hydel stations to various states,? NTPC executive director(commercial) MKV Ramarao told FE.
NTPC has signed power purchase agreements with Maharashtra and Karnataka to supply 75 mw of wind power. It is also, now, negotiating with the Madhya Pradesh government to supply 50 mw of solar power, he informed. ?Talks are on with Karnataka government for supply of 100 mw of wind power,? he added.
Ramarao was here on Tuesday to sign the PPA with the Orissa government-owned transmission company, Gridco, for supply of 10 mw of solar power. The power will be supplied to the state from NTPC?s solar plants at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh and Faridabad in Haryana.
The PPA signing ceremony was attended by state chief secretary BK Patnaik, energy secretary PK Jena, and Gridco managing director Hemant Sharma. The Gridco director (commercial), PK Pradhan, signed the PPA on behalf of the transmission company.
The Gridco MD said the company has signed PPAs with eight solar developers of 1 mw each and MoUs with Indian Renewable Energy Development Authority (IREDA) to avail generation-based incentive (GBI) from the ministry of new and renewable energy(MNRE) through IREDA under rooftop PV and small solar generation programme (RPSSGP) scheme.