National Thermal Power Corporation has planned to make capital investment of Rs.8,550 crore during 2005-06. The investment plan will be financed through borrowings of Rs.5,826 crore and internal accruals of Rs.2,724 crore. Of the total debt, Rs.4,256 crore will be raised from banks and financial institutions, while the remaining Rs.1,300 crore would come as external commercial borrowings.

NTPC has planned to commission capacity of 710 MW during 2005-06, which is the lowest capacity addition in recent years.

During financial year 2004-05, NTPC undertook capital expenditure of Rs.5,297 crore as compared with Rs.4,580 crore in 2003-04. The company added 2,000 MW of fresh capacity during 2004-05, taking its total capacity to 23,749 MW, or around one-fifth of India's total power capacity.

Power generation stood at 159.11 billion kwh in 2004-05 - the highest ever - as against 149.17 billion kwh in 2003-04. In 2004-05, NTPC accounted for 27 per cent of India's total power generation.

As of April 2005, NTPC was in the midst of constructing capacity worth 9,417 MW. Work on 2,600 MW capacity for gas project expansion at Kawas and Jhanor Gandhar (Gujarat) is expected to start shortly, while the main plant packages for three projects - Sipat-I, Barh and Bhilai - aggregating 4,460 MW were awarded.

During the first three years of the X Plan period, NTPC added 3,500 MW of new capacity. It has set a target of adding 9,160 MW of new capacity during the X Plan period, which NTPC is confident of attaining. While 710 MW is being added in 2005-06, it would be installing 4,950 MW of capacity during 2006-07, the terminal year of the ongoing X Plan period.

For the XI Plan, NTPC's capacity addition target is 17,333 MW that would take its total capacity to over 46,500 MW by March 2012.

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