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POWER
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Er. S. Chowdhury, FIE |
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The total installed capacity of power plant including Government and private sectors in India after independence was approximately 1,400 MW. During every Five Year Plan, Government of India has given stress for new Power Plants throughout the country since Power is the Core Industry for development in every sector like Industries, Agriculture, Irrigation, Commercial and Domestic area as well. As such the total Power Plant capacity was raised to 1,03,213 MW as on 31.03.2002. The break up of the same is as below :-
Thermal
(including Gas)
= 74,268 MW (72%)
Hydro
= 26,225 MW (25%)
Nuclear
= 2,720 MW _________________________________________________________ Total :- = 1,03,213 MW On the contrary
in India ratio of peak load to off peak is at best 2:1 so far could be
achieved. As a result when all the thermal plants running in almost in
full capacity during peak load hour has to lower the generation level
during off peak load hour shelling out super heated steam/flaring of
natural gas to the atmosphere which is a costly affair. Natural
resources like coal and natural gas falls under non-renewable energy
category and their reserve is also limited. As such in near future the
availability may reduce substantially if such wastage are not
safeguarded by giving stress on Hydro Power Generation which is the
renewable type of energy. In ideal condition, thermal power shall be the base load station when the hydro shall cater peak load variation saving the water reserved in off-peak hours. Further to this additional capacity selected for the period from 2002 to 2012 worked out to achieved about 1,12,019 MW power plant capacity comprising of
Hydro
= 31,569 MW
Thermal (i/c gas)
= 71,470 MW
Nuclear
= 8,980
MW __________________________________________ Total :- = 1,12,019 MW
Incidentally, Govt. of India has recently finalized that 41,000
MW will be the capacity addition during 10th
Plan period of which 22,000 MW will be executed by State
Electricity boards, 11,000 MW by the government sectors and about 8,000
MW by the I.P.P. i.e. by private sector participants as per latest
government policy. Out of 22,000 MW to be commissioned by SEBs, 18,000
MW are ON-GOING project of 9th Plan spilled over to 10th
plan for commissioning. It is evident
form the above that the future development programme in Power Sector,
hydro power development is only 34% and well lagging behind that of
thermal in same proportion. As a result the country would be far away
from achieving the ideal Hydro-Thermal mix proportion for the economic
generation. On the other
hand there are enormous hydro power potential available in the country
in specific in NE Region itself has potential more than 40,000 MW of
which a small percentage has been utilized. Hydro being under renewable
source of energy, utilization of the same would not only help in saving
of coal and natural gas for our future generation but also would be
helpful in many other respect including setting up other industries.
Obviously it is expected that authority will put more stress on Hydro
power development in India in near future and the Hydro potential
available in NE Region shall get priority while finalizing the next Five
Year Plans for ultimate benefit of the country and the region.
The installed capacity of Hydro power in NE Region is 668+405 =
1073 MW including 405 MW of Ranganadi Project as on date.
The projects under Survey and investigation under NE Region are
as below :- 1.
Assam
- 126
MW 2.
Arunachal Pradesh - 31,737 MW 3.
Mizoram
- 303
MW 4.
Meghalaya
- 1,298
MW 5.
Nagaland
- 1,003
MW 6.
Manipur
-
150 MW _______________________________________________
Total
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34,617 MW
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