NTPC Snubs Emissions Tech, Shuts Out GE, Others From $2 Billion Orders

Top electricity generator NTPC has rejected the emissions-cutting technology of GE and other foreign firms for its coal-fired plants, documents show, shutting them out of an estimated $2 billion in orders.

Despite struggling with some of the world's worst air pollution levels, India has already pushed back a deadline to cut emission levels to up to 2022, after extensive lobbying by power producers who cited high costs and technical difficulties.

The rejection of the foreign technology comes at a time when over half of coal-fired plants in India are already set to miss a phased deadline starting December 2019 to cut emissions of lung diseases-causing sulphur oxides.