MoP - Ministry of Power

in Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh, involving regeneration
of the grove through Braj Foundation.
NTPC is also supporting the efforts of Distributed Generation
(DG) for preparation of feasibility reports, project insurance
and bridging the funding gap between cost of the projects
and available funds, through NTPC Foundation.
NTPC’s efforts in the area of CSR have been widely
recognized and appreciated. During the year 2007-08, NTPC
was conferred with FICCI-SEDF Certificate for
commendable work in CSR from Hon'ble President of India;
HR Power Forum Award (runner up) for Best Corporate
Citizen and Certificate of Commendation for Significant
Achievement among the Large Business Organisations
under CII-ITC Sustainability Awards-2007.
14.0 BUSINESS EXCELLENCE
Total Quality Management has been adopted in NTPC as a
strategic initiative for achieving excellence in all spheres of
activities. Various proven TQM tools and techniques like
ISO, 5S, Quality Circles, Benchmarking, Professional
Circles, Performance Improvement Projects and Business
Excellence Model have been deployed in varying degrees
across the organization. The main aim is to develop a culture
of creativity, innovation and improvement amongst
employees across the organization.
The fundamental building block of TQM i.e. ISO for system
standardization has taken firm roots in NTPC. Almost all NTPC
power stations and Corporate Functions have been certified
under the Quality Management Systems of ISO-9000. All
stations have also been certified with ISO-14000 for
compliance to environment norms and OHSAS-18000 for
compliance to occupational health and safety norms. Some
stations have also been certified with SA-8000 for adherence
to Corporate Social Responsibility norms.
NTPC has a vision to become a World class organisation.
In pursuit of actualizing the vision, globally recognised
Business Excellence Model defining the characteristics of
world class organizations was adopted in the organisation
in 2003. The purpose is assessment and enhancement of
excellence level of SBUs. Six Power stations (Farakka,
Kawas, Korba, Talcher-Thermal, Simhadri & Unchahar)
have been awarded with Business Excellence Awards in
2007 by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Till date 16
stations have received CII-EXIM Excellence Awards at
different levels.
15.0 ENERGY CONSERVATION
Continuing its endeavour for exploiting the conservation
potential in different forms of energy being consumed for
operation of power plants, CEETEM (Centre for Energy
Efficient Technology & Energy Management) in NTPC
continued to concentrate on saving different forms of energy
by consistently monitoring the consumption patterns and
adopting latest technology upgradations. NTPC continued
to carry out various energy conservation activities during
2006-07 as well as 2007-08. While 105 no. of in-house
energy audits were carried out during 2006-07 at different
NTPC power projects, during 2007-08, total 60 nos. of inhouse
energy audits have been carried out till 30.11.2007.
With the increased stress on timely implementation of
different energy audit recommendations and adopting other
energy conservation measures, NTPC has been able to
achieve savings worth Rs. 48.94 crores during 2006-07 as
against the target of Rs. 37 crores.
NTPC also carried out energy audits in different power
stations belonging to APGENCO (1x62.5 MW Ramagundam
TPS and 4x60 MW, 2x120 MW, 2x110 MW units of
Kathgudam TPS) and 1x120 MW of Tata’s Power Plant at
Jojobera (Jamshedpur, Bihar) during 2006-07. NTPC has
also carried out the energy audit of 2x210 MW units of
Panipat Thermal Power Station in Haryana. NTPC
successfully completed the energy audit of 15 power plants
belonging to Saudi Electricity Company in the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia during this period. A number of other bids for
conducting energy audits of external utilities have been
submitted.
Some of the other energy conservation measures adopted
are – complete implementation of on line energy
management system of all major drives in two of its power
plants, adoption of polymer coating technology in old CW
pumps/ other water pumps for efficiency improvement,
adoption of energy efficient variable frequency drives in more
equipments etc., which are also yielding good results. NTPC
is also in the process of adopting super critical technology
for its future units of 660 MW & above ratings.
16.0 RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (R&D)
NTPC R&D continued to provide technical support to the
stations in terms of condition monitoring, failure analysis,
corrosion studies, etc such as Condition monitoring of Fire
Resistant Fluid (FRF) of Simhadri, Turbine lubricating oils of
RGPPL, TG oil of Badarpur, Generator transformer of Talcher
Thermal; Failure of Condenser tubes of Badarpur; High
Conductivity of DM water at Badarpur; etc. R&D is being
upgraded and restructured with the support of Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore. All the three projects identified under
MOU with GOI for 2007-08 are progressing well and will be
completed in time.
R&D has filed four Patent Applications viz. ANN
Based Expert System for Health Assessment of
High Voltage Transformers, Heat Treatment
Technique for Determining Constituents of Wear
Particles in Lubricating Oil and Hydraulic Fluids,
Ready-to-Use Fly Ash Based Product through
Setting Properties Enhancement by Using a Dry
Plasticizer and Fly-ash Based Utensil Cleaning
Powder
R&D along with BARC has developed the
technology for detecting blade damages and also
the presence of shaft crack in running turbine for
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