NTPC (India) plans to cut coal share in power capacity to 56% by 2032

India's largest thermal power generation company, state-owned NTPC, plans to reduce the share of coal in its installed generation capacity from the current 85% (38,154 MW of coal-fired capacity, out of a total of 45,048 MW) to 79% by 2022 (68,829 MW out of a total of 86,542 MW) and to 56% by 2032. The share of gas in the capacity should remain stable until at least 2022 at nearly 6 GW (5,984 MW). NTPC plans to add nearly 10 GW of hydropower and solar capacity by 2022, from the current 910 MW to 11,729 MW in 2029. The group already has 110 MW of solar PV parks under operation with a further 250 MW under construction and 510 MW of solar PV projects under bidding. NTPC also has 800 MW of operational hydropower capacity (until the end of July 2015) with 819 MW under construction. The group will also invest in nuclear power: in January 2011, it created a joint venture with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India for the development of a 1,400 MW PWHR nuclear power plant in India.