core sector communique

Record 53,922 MW Capacity Added During 11th Plan 

            There has been a record capacity addition of 53,922 MW till date during the 11th Five Year Plan, out of which 19,459 MW has been added in the current Financial Year, the highest ever capacity addition in a single year. This was stated by the Union Minister of Power Shri Sushilkukmar Shinde at a press conference in New Delhi today. The Minister outlined the achievements of Power Sector during the 11th Five Year Plan. The highlights are as follows:

CAPACITY ADDITION 

Since power generation capacity is a continued challenge to the country if it has to achieve 8%+ rate of growth, hence, a lot of emphasis has been placed in the 11th Plan on the timely capacity addition. Thus -

·         There has been a record Capacity Addition of 53,922 MW in the 111th Plan as on 29.03.12. 

·         This is more than two and a half times of the achievement of 21,180 MW capacity addition in the 10th Plan. 

·         In fact, the capacity addition in the 11th plan is close to the total cumulative achievement of 56,617 MW in last 15 years from the 3 plans that is - 8th to 10th plan.

·         The total installed capacity is 1,92, 792 MW as on 29.03.12. 

·         Now 75,785 MW is planned for 12th Plan.

Similarly, the capacity addition of 19,459 MW in 2011-12 (upto 29.03.12) has been the highest ever capacity addition in a single financial year. In fact -

·         This capacity addition of 19,459 MW is 1.5 times more than the addition of 12,161 MW achieved last year (2010-11) and any of the years in the 11th Plan. 

·         In fact more than 4440 MW capacity has been added from 11 projects in just one month, that is, March 2012.

·         In addition to above, there are 5 projects totalling 1885 MW which are already synchronised and expected to be commissioned shortly. These projects are: Jajjhar,  Bhusawal Unit-5, Parichha, Kasaipalli, Balco.

ELECTRICITY GENERATION 

Apart from capacity addition, specific emphasis has been laid to ensure efficient operation of plants so as to achieve higher generation. As a result of this, the generation achievements in the 11th plan have surpassed all previous records. Thus – 

·         In 2010-11, the generation was 811 Billion Units (BU).

·         This year’s target for electricity generation of 855BU has already been achieved on 23.3.12 that is, one week before the close of the year. 

·         By the end of March 2012, a total of 875 BU generation is expected to be achieved which would be about 8% higher than the last year’s achievement of 811BU.

TRANSMISSION  

PGCIL ACHIEVEMENTS

·         World’s highest voltage line test station of 1200KV transmission line erected in partnership with 35 indigenous companies has been successfully tested at Bina, in Madhya Pradesh.

·         Transmission Line addition of 32,100 Circuit km has been achieved in the 11th Plan. This is highest so far for any period since the inception of PGCIL in 1989.

·         The Cumulative transmission line length created by PGCIL now is 91,651 ckms.

As regards Transformation Capacity addition by PGCIL, a record Capacity Addition of 52,665 MVA has been achieved in the11th Plan.  

·         This is close to total cumulative achievement of 59,415 MVA by PGCIL since its inception in 1989; 

·         Now the total installed transformation capacity installed by PGCIL is 1.12 lac MVA (Mega Volt Ampere).

ENTIRE TRANSMISSION SECTOR

·         In the 11th plan, there has been a record Inter-Regional transmission line carrying capacity addition of 11,800 MW. 

·         About 2000 MW of further transmission capacity is expected to be added by the end of March 2012. Thus a total of 13,800 MW of transmission capacity is expected to be added by the end of the 11th plan.

·         The cumulative transformation capacity available upto the end of 10th Plan was  14,100 MW.

·         In the 11th plan, the addition of 13,800 MW transmission capacity is almost equal to the total cumulative transmission capacity available at the end of the 10th plan (14,100 MW).    

·         70,239 Circuit Km (ckm) of transmission lines have been added in the 11th Plan. This is 1.5 times of the achievement of 46,138 ckm added in the 10th plan.

·         As of now, total cumulative transmission line length is about 2.68 lac ckm

·         Transformation Capacity addition:            Transformation capacity addition of 1.36 lac MVA  (Mega Volt Ampere) has been achieved in the 11th Plan. This is 1.8 times of the achievement of 75,696 MVA in the 10th plan.

·         The total installed transformation capacity is now about  3.94 lac MVA.

DISTRIBUTION 

·         The Bharat Nirman target of electrification of 1 lac unelectrified villages and providing free electric connection to 1.75 crore BPL households has already been exceeded by achievement of electrification of 1,03,611 villages and 1.91 crore BPL households as on 22.3.2012.

CPSU VILLAGES ENERGISATION SCHEME

·         The Central CPSUs like NTPC, etc. have been directed to ensure 100% electrification of households within 5 km radius of each and every power plant location. 

·         For this, 29 Projects costing about Rs 320 crs have been taken up.

TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT

·         9 super critical technology units with a total capacity of 6080 MW have been commissioned in the 11th plan – Adani, Mundra, Tata Mundra, Sipat,  Jhajjhar, etc.

·         24,000 MW of supercritical plants are now targeted for commissioning in the     12th plan.

·         World’s highest voltage line test station of 1200KV transmission line set up with indigenous technology has been successfully tested.

·         World’s longest +/- 800 kv HVDC multi-terminal bi-pole link of 2000 KM is under implementation from Biswanath Chairali in North Eastern region  to Agra in Western India.

·         Extensive use of Gas Insulated Sub-stations of 400 KV and 765KV levels have led to reduced land requirement of upto 50% - from 120 acres to 60 acres for 765KV substation and 60 acres to 30 acres for 400KV substation as compared to conventional air insulated substations. This will particularly benefit the setting up of high capacity substations in urban and hilly areas.

·         Extensive construction of 765 KV D/C lines has been done to enable large capacity transmission on the same right of way. This has also reduced the land requirement from 128 metres to 69 metres.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

·         9479 MW capacity has been saved upto September, 2011 in the 11th plan and by end of March 12 a total of 10,758 MW is expected to be saved.  

·         2.6 crore CFL lamps  have been provided as part of the efforts to support and encourage efficient appliances for energy savings.

NATIONAL ELECTRICITY FUND (NEF)

·         A National Electricity Fund has been created for providing interest subsidy on the loans to state / private utilities taken by them for distribution infrastructure strengthening.

·         In the first two years of the 12th plan, upto Rs 25,000 crores of investments are expected to be covered for strengthening of the distribution infrastructure.