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General Electric (GE) Arm, NTPC Sign MOU on Decarbonization

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General Electric’s (GE - Free Report) subsidiary, GE Power India, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with NTPC Ltd., an Indian central public sector undertaking engaged in electricity generation and related activities. The agreement is aimed at reducing the carbon footprint of NTPC’s existing coal-fired power plants.

The agreement helps India progress in its efforts to adopt advanced powering technology to decarbonize power generation as it strives to achieve its net-zero goal.

This is a first-of-its-kind MOU partnering on research, development and engineering of technologies that will help NTPC reduce the amount of coal-fired in its units while simultaneously replacing it by co-firing alternative carboneous and non-carboneous fuels. The process will help in reducing the carbon footprint of NTPC’s coal-based power generation.

The deal with GE Power India will help NTPC co-fire biomass pellets beyond 20% and up to 100%, as well as enable co-firing of methanol. It will also explore options to introduce ammonia as a co-firing fuel and demonstrate technologies that enable co-firing with lower carbon fuels in coal-fired power plants.

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