NTPC secures PPA with Indian Army for solar-hydrogen based microgrid project

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NTPC has secured a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Indian Army for sale of power from its solar-hydrogen based microgrid project at Chushul (Ladakh). Under the agreement, NTPC will supply renewable power (200 kW round-the-clock) for a period of 25 years.

The solar-hydrogen based microgrid offers a solution to replace Army’s existing diesel gensets, thus avoiding fossil fuel logistics arrangement and 1500 ton/year CO2.

“This is world’s most unique hydrogen based off-grid microgrid project at an altitude of 4400m and temperatures dipping to -30 deg C in winter. Once operational, it would usher in a new era of decarbonisation and modernisation of the defence sector in the border locations of the Himalayas,” stated NTPC.

 

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