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--NTPC director: Need to cut time taken to set up nuclear power plants 
--NTPC director:Must consider equity financing to cut power generation costs 
--NTPC director: Need to mull green bonds to bring down power generation costs 
--CONTEXT: Comments by NTPC Director Projects at Bharat Electricity Summit 
--NTPC director:Need to explore innovative fundraise plans to optimise costs

 

NEW DELHI – To minimise the cost of power, it is important for power generators to access cheaper funds, NTPC Ltd. Director (Projects) K. Shanmugha Sundaram said Friday. Public sector enterprises should explore fundraising through green bonds, equity financing, and even look at other markets, he said. 

 

NTPC is India's largest integrated power utility, with the objective to meet the nation's clean and affordable energy requirements. With an installed capacity of around 88 gigawatts, NTPC is targeting 60 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity by 2032.

According to Sundaram, the government and the industry need to come together to cut the time taken to set up and operationalise a nuclear power plant. "The time taken between planning a power plant and operationalising it takes a long time," he said. "To meet the growing demand, we cannot have such a huge gap between the two."

 

For the quarter ended December, NTPC had reported net profit of INR 49.87 billion on revenues of INR 406.44 billion. At 1342 IST, the company's shares traded 7.2% higher at INR 381.25 on the National Stock Exchange.  End

 

IST, or Indian Standard Time, is five-and-a-half hours ahead of GMT

 

Reported by Priyasmita Dutta and Gunjan Rajput

Edited by Akul Nishant Akhoury

 

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