TPC Ltd., has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) Japan and its subsidiary Mitsubishi Power India Private Limited (MPIL) to demonstrate the feasibility for Hydrogen co-firing blended with natural gas in MHI 701D gas turbines installed at NTPC Auraiya Gas Power Plant in Uttar Pradesh. The total
installed capacity of the Auraiya Gas Power Plant is 663 MW with four gas turbines operating in combined cycle mode. The MoU was signed by both companies in the presence of Ujjwal Kanti Bhattacharya, Director (Projects), NTPC Ltd., Tatsuto Nagayasu, CMD, Mitsubishi Power India and Hiroyuki Shinohara, Vice President, Mitsubishi Power India.
Achieving decarbonizing targets requires a concerted and wide-ranging roadmap across all energy intensive sectors. As a part of this road map, hydrogen co-firing in gas turbines can play a key role in reducing CO2 emissions. NTPC Ltd., intends to play a major role in energy transition and achieving the COP26 commitments. Thus, NTPC is exploring various new hydrogen generation technologies along with hydrogen usage.
Under this MoU, both companies will collaborate to carry out the study and identify key actions for introducing hydrogen co-firing at NTPC Auraiya Gas-based combined cycle power plant. The study will identify key actions for co-firing for various percentages of hydrogen e.g. 5%, 15%, 30%, 50% and 100% and the hydrogen required for the project will be supplied by NTPC.
