NTPC signs Power Purchase Agreement with Indian Army

NTPC signed a Power Purchase Agreement with the Indian Army on Monday for sale of 200 kW RE-RTC power from solar-hydrogen based Microgrid at Chushul (Ladakh) for a period of 25 years.

The agreement was signed by DMR Panda, CGM, NTPC-Hydrogen and Aditya Harshey, Brigadier and Chief Engineer (Indian Army), Leh.



The solar-hydrogen based microgrid will offer a solution to replace Army’s existing diesel gensets, in turn avoiding fossil fuel logistics arrangement and saving Carbon dioxide emissions of 1500 ton per year.


The hydrogen based off-grid is the microgrid project is located at an altitude of 4,400 m and temperatures dipping to -30 deg C in winter, making it one of the world's most unique grids.

Once operational, it would begin in a new era of decarbonisation and modernisation of the defence sector in the border locations of the Himalayas.