Indian super critical thermal plant design to use 32% less land

India's National Thermal Power Corporation is designing a new layout for a 1,600 MW super critical thermal plant that will require 32% less land.

The new design would reduce land requirement for generating 1MW of power to 0.47 acre from the current 0.7-0.8 acre, making it possible to build a 1,600 MW power plant on just 750 acre against 1,100 acre needed now.

"We are working on a new layout for a critical thermal power plant and we intend to use it at the Katwa power project in West Bengal," said NTPC chairman Arup Roy Choudhury told ET. "Here we already have 556 acre. Another 200 acre is all that we need for the 1,600 MW plant."

Former NTPC chairman T Shankaralingam, who was also director projects at the company, said that with scarcity of land requirement, power project managers are working out ways to reduce land requirement.

"Cutting down on the coal stock yard, switch yard and fly ash storing area is perfectly feasible," he points out.

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