National Power Training Institute (NPTI), an ISO 9001 & ISO 14001 organization under the Ministry of Power, Government of India is a National Apex body for Training and Human Resources Development in the Power Sector with its Corporate Office at Faridabad. NPTI has been providing its dedicated service for more than five decades.
NPTI has trained over 3,20,000 Power Professionals in regular Programs over the last 5 decades. NPTI is the world's leading integrated power training institute. NPTI is the only institute of its kind in the world, with a wide geographical spread and a wide gamut of academic and training programs in the power sector. NPTI's committed faculty provides excellent training in the Power Sector, which is the most important sector among various infrastructure sectors. Training provided by NPTI on Generation Simulators has improved the Plant Load Factor of Generating Units, has increased the availability of Transmission & Distribution Systems, and has decreased Aggregate Technical & Commercial Losses. This in turn is providing more power to the country. Thus the training being provided by NPTI is having a cascading effect on the growth of GDP and economy of the country.
NPTI operates on an all-India basis through its eleven Institutes in different zones of the country as per the details below:
Northern Region
- NPTI Corporate Office, Faridabad
- NPTI (Hydro Power Training Centre), Nangal
- NPTI, Badarpur, New Delhi
Southern Region
- NPTI, Alappuzha
- NPTI (Hot Line Training Centre), Bengaluru
- NPTI (Power System Training Institute), Bengaluru
- NPTI, Neyveli
Eastern & North Eastern Region
- NPTI, Durgapur
- NPTI, Guwahati
Western Region
- NPTI, Nagpur
- NPTI, Shivpuri
NPTI conducts long-term, medium-term, and short-term Training Programs for Engineers and Supervisors on various technical and managerial topics about the Renewable Energy and Power Sector in the areas of Thermal, Hydro, Renewable, Transmission and Distribution, Management, Regulatory Affairs, etc. in all the Institute. The training programs conducted by NPTI are either regular or customized to suit the training needs of the client organizations. These programs are being organized around the year along with workshops and seminars on the latest developments in the sector.
Major training programs conducted by NPTI include induction training to fresh Graduate Engineers/Executives from various organizations of Power Sector such as CEA, GRID-India, NHPC, DVC, MPPGCL, RRUVNL, etc, and customized training programs such as for Financial Institutions on Energy Efficiency Financing, Capacity Building programs, Power System Operation Training and Certification, 3-week Foundation training program for fresh recruits of central PSUs under the Ministry of Power, Training under Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS), Mid – Career Training Program for IAS Officers etc.
Apart from Indian nationals, professionals from various countries like Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bhutan, Cambodia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Iraq, Kenya, Libya, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Oman, Philippines, South America, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, UAE, Zambia, Zimbabwe etc. have also undergone training at NPTI’s various training Institutes.