NTPC Limited is India's largest power utility company engaged in the business of generation and sale of bulk power to State Power Utilities. Other business of the Company includes providing consultancy, project management & supervision, energy trading, oil & gas exploration and coal mining. The company operates their stations at a level of efficiency that exceeds the average in India, based upon availability factor and average plant load factor (PLF). They have developed a long term technology roadmap for the induction of high efficiency equipment, including supercritical and ultra-supercritical machines at their new plants. NTPC Limited was incorporated on November 7, 1975 as a private limited company with the name Natio