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PROF.S.S.PITRE
PROF. V.S.DESHPANDE
PROF.S.D.MARKANDE
Guide
H.O.D
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of Engg. Pune.
of Engg. Pune.
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SR.NO.
TITLE
Abstract
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Introduction of Energy
1.1 Overview
1.2 Demand
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Electricity in India
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25
30
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Problems with Indias Power sector
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Conclusion
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References
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Abstract
India is a country with more than 1.2 billion people accounting for more than 17%
of worlds population. It is the seventh largest country in the world with total land area of
3,287,263 sq. kilometers. India measures 3214 km from north to south and 2993 km from
east to west. It has a land frontier of 15,200 km and coastline of 7,517 km. India has 28 states
and 7 union territories. It faces a formidable challenge in providing adequate energy supplies
to users at a reasonable cost. It is anticipated that Indias nominal GDP will exceed US $ 2
trillion by March 2012. Indias nominal GDP crossed the US $ 1 trillion mark in 2007-2008
which means that the annual growth rate of nominal GDP during the period is stupendous 18
percent. Thus the energy challenge is of fundamental importance. In the last six decades,
Indias energy use has increased 16 times and the installed electricity capacity by 84 times. In
2008, Indias energy use was the fifth highest in the world. Nevertheless, India as a country
suffers from significant energy poverty and pervasive electricity deficits. In recent years,
Indias energy consumption has been increasing at a relatively fast rate due to population
growth and economic development, even though the base rate may be somewhat low. With
an economy projected to grow at 8-9% per annum, rapid urbanization and improving
standards of living for millions of Indian households, the demand is likely to grow
significantly. As per the estimates made in the Integrated Energy Policy Report of Planning
Commission of India, 2006, if the country is to progress on the path of this sustained GDP
growth rate during the next 25 years, it would imply quadrupling of its energy needs over
2003-04 levels with a six-fold increase in the requirement of electricity and a quadrupling in
the requirement of crude oil. The supply challenge is of such magnitude that there are
reasonable apprehensions that severe shortages may occur.
List of Tables
Table No.
Name
Page No.
1.1
12
1.2
14
3.1
17
3.2
18
3.3
20
3.4
20
3.5
23
3.6
24
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4.1
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Chapter 1
Introduction to Energy
In recent years availability of power in India has both increased and improved but
demand has consistently outstripped supply and substantial energy and peak shortages
prevailed in 2009-10. There are also various estimates of 25000 to 35000 MW of power
being produced by diesel generation to meet the deficits. Electricity shortage is not the only
problem. Its spread is anequally serious issue. In the past, the selection of an energy resource
for electricity generation was dominated by finding the least expensive power generating
plant. Although such an approach is essential, there is growing concern about other aspects of
power generation such as social, environmental and technological benefits and consequences
of the energy source selection. Figure 1 shows a comparison of different energy sources for
life cycle emissions. It can be observed that coal has the maximum global warming potential
followed by Natural Gas and others. Further, it needs to be re-emphasized that for India, like
most developing countries, the cost of producing electricity is of paramount concern while
planning for the type of plant to be installed and commissioned and more so with abundant
supply of coal. However, in the long run if we take the effect of the pollutants on human
health and environment and cost as well as efforts needed to improve or alter the path of
degradation, the initial higher cost of using renewable resources for producing energy may
not be too big. A high degree of caution is also needed as emerging economies like India may
not at present have financial resources to leapfrog directly to cleaner mechanisms of energy.
Since global warming is an international phenomenon and it has no boundaries there is an
urgent need for the transfer of technology and development of appropriate financial
instruments from developed the world to nations who are still trying to find their rightful
places. No argument is needed to understand that the world is today facing the problem of
global warming due to rapid industrialization and urbanization followed by the western
world. In terms of per capita equity India is 145th in the world with a release of 1.25 t CO2
per annum.
1.1 Overview
The Indian economy has experienced unprecedented economic growth over the last
decade. Today, India is the ninth largest economy in the world, driven by a real GDP growth
of 8.7% in the last 5 years (7.5% over the last 10 years). In 2010 itself, the real GDP growth
of India was the 5th highest in the world. This high order of sustained economic growth is
placing enormous demand on its energy resources. The demand and supply imbalance in
energy is pervasive across all sources requiring serious efforts by Government of India to
augment energy supplies as India faces possible severe energy supply constraints.
A projection in the Twelfth Plan document of the Planning Commission indicates
that total domestic energy production of 669.6 million tons of oil equivalent (MTOE) will be
reached.
By 2016-17 and 844 MTOE by 2021-22. This will meet around 71 per cent and 69
per cent of expected energy consumption, with the balance to be met from imports, projected
to be about 267.8 MTOE by 2016-17 and 375.6 MTOE by 2021-22. 3. Indias energy basket
has a mix of all the resources available including renewables.
The dominance of coal in the energy mix is likely to continue in foreseeable future.
At present India's coal dependence is borne out from the fact that 54 % of the total installed
electricity generation capacity is coal based and 67% of the capacity planned to be added
during the 11 Five year Plan period 2007-12, is coal based. Furthermore, over 70 % of the
electricity generated is from coal based power plants. Other renewables such as wind,
geothermal, solar, and hydroelectricity represent a 2 percent share of the Indian fuel mix.
Nuclear holds a one percent share.
The share of Coal and petroleum is expected to be about 66.8 per cent in total
commercial energy produced and about 56.9 per cent in total commercial energy supply by
2021-22. The demand for coal is projected to reach 980 MT during the Twelfth Plan period,
whereas domestic production is expected to touch 795 MT in the terminal year (2016-17).
Even.
Though the demand gap will need to be met through imports, domestic coal
production will also need to grow at an average rate of 8 per cent compared to about 4.6 per
cent in the Eleventh Five Year Plan. The share of crude oil in production and consumption is
expected to be 6.7 per cent and 23 per cent respectively by 2021-22.
In 2011-12, India was the fourth largest consumer in the world of Crude Oil and
Natural Gas, after the United States, China, and Russia. Indias energy demand continued to
rise in spite of slowing global economy. Petroleum demand in the transport sector is expected
to grow rapidly in the coming years with rapid expansion of vehicle ownership. While Indias
domestic energy resource base is substantial, the country relies on imports for a considerable
amount of its energy use, particularly for Crude Petroleum.
Combustible renewables and waste constitute about one fourth of Indian energy use.
This share includes traditional biomass sources such as firewood and dung, which are used by
more than 800 million Indian households for cooking.
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clean sources of energy, especially cooking fuel to a large section of the population, most of
who live in rural areas. As per the 2011 Census, almost 85% of rural households were
dependent on traditional biomass fuels for their cooking energy requirements. National
Sample Survey2009-10 reveals the continued dependence on firewood in rural areas for
cooking, with percentage of households depending on firewood remaining at 76.3% in 200910 a drop of only 2 percentage points since 1993-94 even though the percentage using
LPG has increased from about 2% to 11.5% over the same period. On the other hand, the
incidence of dependence on firewood for cooking in urban areas has fallen from about 30%
to 17.5%between 1993-94 and 2009-10 a drop of more than 12 percentage points and the
incidence of dependence on kerosene has plunged from 23.2% to 6.5% during the same
period a 72%fall, while the percentage of urban households using LPG has more than
doubled from under b30% to 64.5%. In other words, the growth in prevalence of use of LPG
in urban areas has-been balanced by a decline in use of kerosene, in the first place, and
firewood and chips, in the second. In rural areas, the rise in LPG use has been mainly at the
expense of dung cake, followed by kerosene and other sources. Further, as per the NSSO
Reports (55th, 61st and66th Rounds), there has been an increase in biomass fuel use in terms
of absolute quantity consumed over the past decade among rural households. This is an area
of concern given the considerable health impacts of burning biomass fuels apart from being
hindrance to achieving developmental goals, i.e. ensuring a minimum standard of living and
provisioning of basic minimum needs. Thus, a transition to cleaner forms of energy in terms
of access to electricity and other modern energy forms would have implications not only on
energy security, but also with respect to enabling gender equality and bring about greater
development and social progress.
The state of preparedness of the country for generation of the energy it requires and
the quality or efficiency of the technology used in the generation can be well analyzed by the
indicators of installed capacity and capacity utilization, respectively. The power sector in
India had an installed capacity of 236.38 Gigawatt (GW) as of March 2012 recording an
increase of 14% over that of March 2011. Captive power plants generate an additional 36.5
GW. Thermal power plants constitute 66% of the installed capacity, hydroelectric about 19%
and rest being a combination of wind, small hydro-plants, biomass, waste-to-electricity
plants, and nuclear energy. India generated about 855 BU electricity during 2011-12 fiscal.
As of March 2012, the per capita total consumption in India was estimated to be 879
kWh. India's electricity sector is amongst the world's most active players in renewable energy
utilization, especially wind energy As of March 2012, India had an installed capacity of about
24.9 GW of new and renewable technologies-based electricity. During the Eleventh Five
Year Plan, nearly 55,000 MW of new generation capacity was created, yet there continued to
be an overall energy deficit of 8.7 per cent and peak shortage of 9.0 per cent. Resources
currently allocated to energy supply are not sufficient for narrowing the gap between energy
needs and energy availability.
As per the 2011 Census, 55.3% rural households had access to electricity. However,
NSS results shows that in the year 1993-94, 62% households in rural India were using
kerosene as primary source of energy for lighting. In 2009-10, on the other hand, 66%
households were found using electricity for lighting. Thus electricity has, during the
intervening years, evidently replaced kerosene as the most common fuel used for lighting by
rural households. This substitution of kerosene by electricity appears to have been most rapid
during 1993-94 to 1999-2000, when about 11% households seem to have switched to
electricity. The substitution appears to have slowed down since then, with 8% more
households switching over to electricity during the seven or eight years after 1999-2000, and
picked up pace again thereafter, with another 9% of rural households added to the category of
electricity users since 2006-07. Indeed, this may widen as the economy moves to a higher
growth trajectory. India's success in resolving energy bottlenecks therefore remains one of the
key challenges in achieving the projected growth outcomes. Further, India's excessive
reliance on imported crude oil makes it imperative to have an optimal energy mix that will
allow it to achieve its long-run goal of sustainable development.
Energy exploration and exploitation, capacity additions, clean energy alternatives,
conservation, and energy sector reforms will, therefore, be critical for energy security. Energy
conservation has also emerged as one of the major issues in recent years. Conservation and
efficient utilization of energy resources play a vital role in narrowing the gap between
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demand and supply of energy. Improving energy efficiency is one of the most desirable
options for bridging the gap in the short term.
The first demonstration of electric light in Calcutta was conducted on 24 July 1879 by
P W Fleury & Co. On 7 January 1897, Kilburn & Co secured the Calcutta electric lighting
license as agents of the Indian Electric Co, which was registered in London on 15 January
1897. A month later, the company was renamed the Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation.
The control of the company was transferred from London to Calcutta only in 1970. Enthused
by the success of electricity in Calcutta, power was thereafter introduced in Bombay.
Mumbai saw electric lighting demonstration for the first time in 1882 at Crawford Market,
and Bombay Electric Supply & Tramways Company (B.E.S.T.) set up a generating station in
1905 to provide electricity for the tramway. The first hydroelectric installation in India was
installed near a tea estate at Sidrapong for the Darjeeling Municipality in 1897. The first
electric train ran between Bombay's Victoria Terminus and Kurla along the Harbour Line, in
1925. In 1931, electrification of the meter gauge track between Madras Beach and Tambaram
was started.
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%
Growth
(on
yearly
basis)
Coal
Gas
Nuclear
Total
Sub(in
Other
Sub-Total (in
Diesel Total
MW) Hydel Renewable Renewable MW)
Thermal
756
98
854
508
508
1,362
1,004
149
1,153
560
560
1,713
8.59%
1,597
228
1,825
1,061 -
1,061
2,886
13.04%
2,436
300
2,736
1,917 -
1,917
4,653
12.25%
4,417
137
352
4,903
4,124 -
4,124
9,027
18.80%
8,652
165
241
9,058
640
6,966 -
6,966
16,664 10.58%
14,875 168
164
15,207
640
10,833 -
10,833
26,680 12.02%
26,311 542
177
27,030
1,095
14,460 -
14,460
42,585 9.94%
43,764
1,565
18,307 -
18,307
63,636 9.89%
61,010
2,225
21,658 902
22,560
85,795 4.94%
2,720
26,269 1,628
27,897
105,046 4.49%
3,900
34,654 7,760
42,414
132,329 5.19%
38,990 24,503
63,493
199,877 9.00%
40,730 31,692
72,422
249,488 10.35%
1.2 Demand
Some 800 million Indians use traditional fuels fuel wood, agricultural waste and
biomass cakes for cooking and general heating needs. These traditional fuels are burnt in
cook stoves, known as chulah or chulha in some parts of India. Traditional fuel is inefficient
source of energy, its burning releases high levels of smoke, PM10 particulate matter, NOX,
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SOX, PAHs, polyaromatics, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide and other air pollutants. Some
reports, including one by the World Health Organization, claim 300,000 to 400,000 people in
India die of indoor air pollution and carbon monoxide poisoning every year because of
biomass burning and use of chullahs. Traditional fuel burning in conventional cook stoves
releases unnecessarily large amounts of pollutants, between 5 to 15 times higher than
industrial combustion of coal, thereby affecting outdoor air quality, haze and smog, chronic
health problems, damage to forests, ecosystems and global climate. Burning of biomass and
firewood will not stop, these reports claim, unless electricity or clean burning fuel and
combustion technologies become reliably available and widely adopted in rural and urban
India. The growth of electricity sector in India may help find a sustainable alternative to
traditional fuel burning.
In addition to air pollution problems, a 2007 study finds that discharge of untreated
sewage is single most important cause for pollution of surface and ground water in India.
There is a large gap between generation and treatment of domestic wastewater in India. The
problem is not only that India lacks sufficient treatment capacity but also that the sewage
treatment plants that exist do not operate and are not maintained. Majority of the governmentowned sewage treatment plants remain closed most of the time in part because of the lack of
reliable electricity supply to operate the plants. The wastewater generated in these areas
normally percolates in the soil or evaporates. The uncollected wastes accumulate in the urban
areas cause unhygienic conditions, release heavy metals and pollutants that leaches to surface
and groundwater. Almost all rivers, lakes and water bodies are severely polluted in India.
Water pollution also adversely impacts river, wetland and ocean life. Reliable generation and
supply of electricity is essential for addressing India's water pollution and associated
environmental issues.
Other drivers for India's electricity sector are its rapidly growing economy, rising
exports, improving infrastructure and increasing household incomes.
Demand trends
In a May 2014 report, India's Central Electricity Authority anticipated, for 201415
fiscal year, a base load energy deficit and peaking shortage to be 5.1% and 2% respectively.
India also expects all regions to face energy shortage up to a maximum of 17.4% in North
Eastern region.
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Peak Power
Region
Requirement Availabilit
Deman Supply
Surplus(+)/Deficit(-)
Surplus(+)/Deficit(-)
(MU)
y (MU)
d (MW) (MW)
Northern
328,944
318,837
-3.1%
47,570
46,899 -1.4%
Western
288,062
289,029
+0.3%
45,980
52,652 +14.5%
Southern
298,180
260,366
-12.7%
41,677
32,423 -22.2%
Eastern
118,663
114,677
-3.4%
17,608
17,782 +1.0%
NorthEastern
14,823
12,248
-17.4%
2,543
2,215
All India
1,048,672
995,157
-5.1%
147,815
144,78
-2.0%
8
-12.9%
Gujarat has the highest power surplus of any Indian state, with about 1.8 GW more
power available than its internal demand. The state was expecting more capacity to become
available. It was expecting to find customers, sell excess capacity to meet power demand in
other states of India, thereby generate revenues for the state. Andhra Pradesh leads in the
greatest power deficit with peak power being less by 3.2 GW against demand.
Despite an ambitious rural electrification programed, some 400 million Indians lose
electricity access during blackouts. While 80% of Indian villages have at least an electricity
line, just 52.5% of rural households have access to electricity. In urban areas, the access to
electricity is 93.1% in 2008. The overall electrification rate in India is 64.5% while 35.5% of
the population still lives without access to electricity.
According to a sample of 97,882 households in 2002, electricity was the main source
of lighting for 53% of rural households compared to 36% in 1993.
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Chapter 2
The 17th Electric Power Survey of India
Over 201011, India's industrial demand accounted for 35% of electrical power
requirement, domestic household use accounted for 28%, agriculture 21%, commercial 9%,
public lighting and other miscellaneous applications accounted for the rest.
The electrical energy demand for 201617 is expected to be at least 1,392 Tera Watt
Hours, with a peak electric demand of 218 GW.
The electrical energy demand for 202122 is expected to be at least 1,915 Tera Watt
Hours, with a peak electric demand of 298 GW.
If current average transmission and distribution average losses remain same (32%),
India needs to add about 135 GW of power generation capacity, before 2017, to satisfy the
projected demand after losses.
McKinsey claims that India's demand for electricity may cross 300 GW, earlier than
most estimates. To explain their estimates, they point to four reasons:
Domestic demand will increase more rapidly as the quality of life for more Indians
improve
About 125,000 villages are likely to get connected to India's electricity grid
Currently blackouts and load shedding artificially suppresses demand; this demand
will be sought as revenue potential by power distribution companies.
A demand of 300 GW will require about 400 GW of installed capacity, McKinsey
notes. The extra capacity is necessary to account for plant availability, infrastructure
maintenance, spinning reserve and losses.
In 2010, electricity losses in India during transmission and distribution were about
24%, while losses because of consumer theft or billing deficiencies added another 1015%.
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Chapter 3
Electricity in India
PerCapita
Consump
Agricult
Domestic Commercial Industrial Traction
Misc. tion
(in
ure
kWh)
31-Dec-1947 4,182
10.11%
4.26%
70.78%
6.62%
2.99%
5.24% 16.3
31-Dec-1950 5,610
9.36%
5.51%
72.32%
5.49%
2.89%
4.44% 18.2
31-Mar-1956 10,150
9.20%
5.38%
74.03%
3.99%
3.11%
4.29% 30.9
31-Mar-1961 16,804
8.88%
5.05%
74.67%
2.70%
4.96%
3.75% 45.9
31-Mar-1966 30,455
7.73%
5.42%
74.19%
3.47%
6.21%
2.97% 73.9
31-Mar-1974 55,557
8.36%
5.38%
68.02%
2.76%
11.36%
4.13% 126.2
31-Mar-1979 84,005
9.02%
5.15%
64.81%
2.60%
14.32%
4.10% 171.6
5.57%
59.02%
2.31%
16.83%
3.83% 228.7
4.89%
51.45%
2.09%
22.58%
3.83% 329.2
5.56%
44.17%
2.09%
26.65%
4.01% 464.6
6.44%
42.57%
2.16%
21.80%
5.75% 671.9
7.65%
45.89%
2.05%
18.84%
4.45% 559.2
8.96%
45.23%
1.88%
18.16%
4.21%
813.3Provisi
onal
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Region
Western
Western
Western
Western
Western
Western
Western
Southern
Southern
Southern
Southern
Southern
Southern
Northern
Northern
Northern
Northern
Northern
Northern
Northern
Northern
Northern
Eastern
Eastern
Eastern
Eastern
Eastern
Eastern
North Eastern
Per-Capita
(kWh)
13,766.6
7,785.2
2,025.5
1,663.2
1,319.6
1,204.4
671.5
1,201.2
2,124.7
1,276.6
1,156.5
1,081.4
593.8
1,098.0
938.88
1,799.0
1,628.3
1,586.7
1,289.4
1,232.2
1,217.4
1,015.2
927.4
449.9
833.2
1,145.8
886.4
790.2
563.8
501.4
133.6
521.2
683.1
Consumption
18
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Tripura
Assam
Manipur
North Eastern Region
NATIONAL
North Eastern
North Eastern
North Eastern
North Eastern
North Eastern
North Eastern
657.6
506.7
257.2
253.8
249.8
235.9
257.98
883.6
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demand is the shortage India is suffering. This shortage in supply ignores the effects of
waiting list of users in rural, urban and industrial customers; it also ignores the demand gap
from India's unreliable electricity supply.
Table No.3.3 Reported data [ 4 ]
Item
Value
209.27
October 2012
893371
October 2012
125.23
October 2012
985317
October 2012
140.09
October 2012
20,2
3,475.9
Maharashtra 39.2
3
7
%
of
National
Installed
Capacity
Gujarat
15,7
4,978.9
20,734.7 559.3
26,269.1
38.2
17.48
772.00 4,203.06 4,975.06
11.23%
9
4
2
2
7
Madhya
8,50 257.18 -
20
Pradesh
3.89
Chhattisgarh
6,38
8.49
4
-
Dadra
& 1,62
196.91 Nagar Haveli 2.35
326.
48.00
17
Goa
Daman
Diu
& 36.7
4.20
1
428.90
6,864.91 2.93%
1,819.26
228.1
4
2,047.40 0.88%
374.17
25.80 -
0.05
0.05
400.02
0.17%
40.91
7.38
48.29
0.02%
1,819.26
228.1
4
2,047.40 0.88%
Central
- 1,62
196.91 Unallocated 2.35
52,8
8,988.3
61,905.3 1,840. 7,447.5
17,372.6 81,117.9
99.5
17.48
9,925.19
34.68%
1
0
00
0
9
9
1
Western
10,6
Uttar Pradesh 82.9 549.97 5
2,705.93
14,274.5
6.10%
7
Rajasthan
7,67
775.03 9.72
8,454.75
573.0 1,548.3
14,059.1
3,483.05 5,031.37
6.01%
0
2
2
Haryana
6,08
560.29 3.92
2.03
6,646.24
109.1 1,373.2
123.20
6
1
Punjab
3,79
288.92 0.88
4,079.80
208.0 3,029.5
297.58
4
3
Delhi
4,55 2,116.0
6.37 1
6,672.38
122.0
690.33 16.00
8
706.33
Himachal
Pradesh
152.
61.88
02
3.92
214.03
34.08
2,950.9
625.91
4
Uttarakhand
300.
69.35
50
369.85
22.28
2,006.0
189.87
1
642.40
77.00
1,658.0
147.53
3
47.86
8.84
52.88
52.88
109.58
1,267.54
129.8
524.05 0
524.05
1,921.39 0.82%
Jammu
Kashmir
Chandigarh
& 329.
304.14 8.94
32
32.5
15.32
4
Central
- 977.
290.35 Unallocated 19
7,500.79 3.21%
0.05%
Northern
34,5
5,031.2
39,627.7 1,620. 15,692.
21,422.3 62,670.1
83.5
12.99
5,729.62
26.79%
6
5
00
75
7
2
0
Tamil Nadu
8,72 1026.3 411.6 10,014.3 524.0 2,182.2 7,946.13 10,128.3 20,666.6 8.83%
21
6.40 0
Andhra
Pradesh
8,57 3,370.4
11,980.6 275.7 3,734.5
17,285.4
36.80
1,294.49 5,029.02
7.39%
3.48 0
8
8
3
8
Karnataka
6,15
8.39
Kerala
914.
256.4
1881.5
533.58
1,704.58 95.60
193.52
56
4
0
Pondicherry
230.
32.50
09
Central
- 1,32
Unallocated 9.58
234.4
254.8 3,599.8
13,940.6
6,392.81
3,693.19 7,292.99
5.96%
2
6
0
6
262.59
19.28 -
281.87
0.12%
1,329.58
150.4
8
1,480.06 0.82%
Southern
25,9
4,962.7 939.3 31,834.6 1,320. 11,398. 13,127.3 24,525.3 57,679.9
32.5
24.66%
8
2
0
00
03
3
6
6
0
West Bengal
7,21
100.00 12.20 7,329.07 6.87
1,248.3
131.45
0
Odisha
5,11
5.06
5,115.06 -
2,166.9
99.80
3
DVC
6,55
90.00
5.60
6,645.60 -
193.26 -
193.26
6838.86 2.92%
Jharkhand
2,35
8.88
2,358.88 -
200.93 20.05
220.98
2,579.86 1.10%
Bihar
1,95
4.70
1,954.70 -
129.43 114.00
243.43
2,198.13 0.94%
Assam
60.0
598.52 20.69 679.21
0
429.72 31.11
460.83
1,140.04 0.49%
Meghalaya
65.61
67.66
356.58 31.03
387.61
455.27
0.19%
Tripura
349.84 4.85
354.69
62.37
78.38
433.07
0.19%
Sikkim
82.6
1
5.00
87.61
174.27 52.11
226.38
313.99
0.13%
Arunachal
Pradesh
32.05
15.88 47.93
97.57
103.91
201.48
249.41
0.11%
Manipur
46.96
45.41 92.37
80.98
5.45
86.43
178.80
0.08%
Mizoram
27.28
51.86 79.14
34.31
36.47
70.78
149.92
0.06%
Nagaland
32.84
2.00
34.84
53.32
28.67
81.99
116.83
0.05%
1,509.56 -
127.15 -
127.15
1,636.71 0.70%
5,355.1 670.06
Central
- 1,45
55.40
Unallocated 4.16
Eastern
2.05
16.01
22
97.8 0
8
Andaman &
Nicobar
60.05 60.05
10.35
10.35
70.40
0.03%
Lakshadweep -
9.97
9.97
0.00%
Islands
70.02 70.02
10.35
10.35
80.37
0.03%
TOTAL
138,
20,380. 1,199. 159,793.
39,893. 29,462.5 69,355.9 233,929.
213.
4,780
100.00%
85
75
99
40
5
5
94
39
9.97
Sector
(in %
total
of
Central
Govt.
52,500.54
9,717.4
4,780.00
66,997.94
28.64%
State
Govt.
59,627.93
27,482.00
3,726.77
90,836.70
38.83%
Private
47,665.52
2,694.00
25,735.78
76,095.30
32.53%
TOTAL
159,793.99
39,893.40
4,780
29,462.55
233,929.94
100.00%
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Substations
(MVA)
Transmission
(c.km)
lines
500 kV HVDC
13,500
9,432
0.699
765 kV
88,500
12,367
0.140
400 KV
180,872
127,261
0.704
200 KV
258,444
145,561
0.563
The all-time maximum peak load is not exceeding 151,000 MW in the unified
grid whereas the all-time peak load met is 136,000 MW on 30/6/2014. The maximum
achieved demand factor of substations is nearly 61.91% at 200 KV level. The operational
performance of the huge capacity substations and the vast network of high voltage
transmission lines with low demand factor are not satisfactory in meeting the peak electricity
load. Detailed forensic engineering studies are to be undertaken and system inadequacies
rectified to evolve in to smart grid for maximizing utility of the existing transmission
infrastructure with optimum future capital investments.
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Chapter 4
Types of Conventional Sources
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The high ash content in India's coal affects the thermal power plant's potential
emissions. Therefore, India's Ministry of Environment & Forests has mandated the use of
beneficiated coals whose ash content has been reduced to 34% (or lower) in power plants in
urban, ecologically sensitive and other critically polluted areas, and ecologically sensitive
areas. Coal benefaction industry has rapidly grown in India, with current capacity topping 90
MT.
Thermal power plants can deploy a wide range of technologies. Some of the major
technologies include:
Cogeneration and combined cycle facility (the combination of gas turbines or internal
combustion engines with heat recovery systems); and
Internal combustion engines (commonly used for small remote sites or stand-by
power generation).
India has an extensive review process, one that includes environment impact
assessment, prior to a thermal power plant being approved for construction and
commissioning. The Ministry of Environment and Forests has published a technical guidance
manual to help project proposers and to prevent environmental pollution in India from
thermal power plants.
Installed thermal power capacity
The installed capacity of Thermal Power in India, as of 31 October 2012, was
140206.18 MW which is 66.99of total installed capacity.
Current installed base of Coal Based Thermal Power is 120,103.38 MW which comes
to 57.38% of total installed base.
Current installed base of Gas Based Thermal Power is 18,903.05 MW which is 9.03%
of total installed capacity.
Current installed base of Oil Based Thermal Power is 1,199.75 MW which is 0.57%
of total installed capacity.
The state of Maharashtra is the largest producer of thermal power in the country.
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nuclear power production capacity, making it the 15th largest nuclear power producer.
Nuclear power provided 3% of the country's total electricity generation in 2011. India aims to
supply 9% of its electricity needs with nuclear power by 2032. India's largest nuclear power
plant project under implementation is at Jaitapur, Maharashtra in partnership with Areva,
France.
4.2
Non-Conventional Sources
Type
Technology
Installed capacity
(in MW)
Wind
Small Hydel Power Projects
Bagasse Cogeneration
20,298.83
3,774.15
2,512.88
Solar
2,208.36
Biomass Power & Gasification 1,285.60
Waste to Power
99.08
30,177.90
Bagasse Cogeneration
SPV Systems (>1 kW)
Biomass Gasifiers Industrial
Waste to Power
Biomass Gasifiers Rural
Water Mills/Micro Hydel
Aerogenerator / Hybrid Systems
517.34
159.77
146.40
119.63
17.63
10.18
2.18
973.13
31,151.03
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The Indian Solar Loan Programmed, supported by the United Nations Environment
Programmed has won the prestigious Energy Globe World award for Sustainability for
helping to establish a consumer financing programed for solar home power systems. Over the
span of three years more than 16,000 solar home systems have been financed through 2,000
bank branches, particularly in rural areas of South India where the electricity grid does not
yet extend. Launched in 2003, the Indian Solar Loan Programmed was a four-year
partnership between UNEP, the UNEP Risoe Centre, and two of India's largest banks, the
Canara Bank and Syndicate Bank.
Installation of solar power plants require nearly 2.4 hectares (6 acres) land per MW
capacity which is similar to coal fired power plants when life cycle coal mining, consumptive
water storage & ash disposal areas are also accounted and hydro power plants when
submergence area of water reservoir is also accounted. 1.33 million MW capacity solar plants
can be installed in India on its 1% land (32,000 square km). There are vast tracts of land
suitable for solar power in all parts of India exceeding 8% of its total area which are
unproductive barren and devoid of vegetation. Part of waste lands (32,000 square km) when
installed with solar power plants can produce 2000 billion Kwh of electricity (two times the
total generation in the year 2013-14) with land productivity/yield of 1.5 million Rs per acre (6
Rs/kwh price) which is at par with many industrial areas and many times more than the best
productive irrigated agriculture lands. Moreover these solar power units are not dependent on
supply of any raw material and are self-productive. There is unlimited scope for solar
electricity to replace all fossil fuel energy requirements (natural gas, coal, lignite and crude
oil) if all the marginally productive lands are occupied by solar power plants in future. The
solar power potential of India can meet perennially to cater per capita energy consumption at
par with USA/Japan for the peak population in its demographic transition.
Land acquisition is a challenge to solar farm projects in India. Some state
governments are exploring means to address land availability through innovation; for
example, by exploring means to deploy solar capacity above their extensive irrigation canal
projects, thereby harvesting solar energy while reducing the loss of irrigation water by solar
evaporation. The state of Gujarat was first to implement the Canal Solar Power Project, to use
19,000 km (12,000 mi) long network of Narmada canals across the state for setting up solar
panels to generate electricity. It was the first ever such project in India.
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India has the fifth largest installed wind power capacity in the world. In 2010, wind
power accounted for 6% of India's total installed power capacity, and 1.6% of the country's
power output.
The development of wind power in India began in the 1990s by Tamil Nadu Electric
Board near Tuticorin, and has significantly increased in the last few years. Suzlon is the
leading Indian company in wind power, with an installed generation capacity of 6.2 GW in
India. Vestas is another major company active in India's wind energy initiative.
As December 2011, the installed capacity of wind power in India was 15.9 GW,
spread across many states of India. The largest wind power generating state was Tamil Nadu
accounting for 30% of installed capacity, followed in decreasing order by Maharashtra,
Gujarat, Karnataka, and Rajasthan. It is estimated that 6 GW of additional wind power
capacity will be installed in India by 2012. In Tamil Nadu, wind power is mostly harvested in
the southern districts such as Kanyakumari, Tirunelveli and Tuticori.The state of Gujarat is
estimated to have the maximum gross wind power potential in India, with a potential of 10.6
GW.
Biomass gasifier
India has been promoting biomass gasifier technologies in its rural areas, to utilise
surplus biomass resources such as rice husk, crop stalks, small wood chips, and other agroresidues. The goal was to produce electricity for villages with power plants of up to 2 MW
capacities. During 2011, India installed 25 rice husk based gasifier systems for distributed
power generation in 70 remote villages of Bihar. The Largest Biomass based power plant in
India is at SIrohi, Rajasthan having the capacity of 20 MW.i.e. Sambhav Energy Limited. In
addition, gasifier systems are being installed at 60 rice mills in India. During the year,
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biomass gasifier projects of 1.20 MW in Gujarat and 0.5 MW in Tamil Nadu were
successfully installed.
Biogas
This pilot programed aims to install small scale biogas plants for meeting the
cooking energy needs in rural areas of India. During 2011, some 45000 small scale biogas
plants were installed. Cumulatively, India has installed 4.44 million small scale biogas plants.
In 2011, India started a new initiative with the aim to demonstrate medium size
mixed feed biogas-fertilizer pilot plants. This technology aims for generation,
purification/enrichment, bottling and piped distribution of biogas. India approved 21 of these
projects with aggregate capacity of 37016 cubic meters per day, of which 2 projects have
been successfully commissioned by December 2011.
India has additionally commissioned 158 projects under its Biogas based
Distributed/Grid Power Generation programed, with a total installed capacity of about 2 MW.
India is rich in biomass and has a potential of 16,881MW (agro-residues and
plantations), 5000MW (bagasse cogeneration) and 2700MW (energy recovery from waste).
Biomass power generation in India is an industry that attracts investments of over INR
6 billion every year, generating more than 5000 million units of electricity and yearly
employment of more than 10 million man-days in the rural areas.
As of 2010, India burnt over 200 million tons of coal replacement worth of traditional
biomass fuel every year to meet its energy need for cooking and other domestic use. This
traditional biomass fuel fuel wood, crop waste and animal dung is a potential raw material
for the application of biomass technologies for the recovery of cleaner fuel, fertilizers and
electricity with significantly lower pollution. Biomass available in India can and has been
playing an important role as fuel for sugar mills, textiles, paper mills, and small and medium
enterprises (SME). In particular there is a significant potential in breweries, textile mills,
fertilizers plants, the paper and pulp industry, solvent extraction units, rice mills,
petrochemical plants and other industries to harness biomass power.
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Areas of Faulted blocks Aravalli belt, Naga-Lushi, West coast regions and SonNarmada lineament.
along the northwest Himalaya, in the States of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and
Uttarakhand. They are found concentrated along a 30-50-km wide thermal band mostly along
the river valleys. Naga-Lusai and West Coast Provinces manifest a series of thermal springs.
Andaman and Nicobar arc is the only place in India where volcanic activity, a continuation of
the Indonesian geothermal fields, and can be good potential sites for geothermal energy.
Cambay graben geothermal belt is 200 km long and 50 km wide with Tertiary sediments.
Thermal springs have been reported from the belt although they are not of very high
temperature and discharge. During oil and gas drilling in this area, in recent times, high
subsurface temperature and thermal fluid have been reported in deep drill wells in depth
ranges of 1.7 to 1.9 km. Steam blowout have also been reported in the drill holes in depth
range of 1.5 to 3.4 km. The thermal springs in India's peninsular region are more related to
the faults, which allow down circulation of meteoric water to considerable depths. The
circulating water acquires heat from the normal thermal gradient in the area, and depending
upon local condition, emerges out at suitable localities. The area includes Aravalli range,
Son-Narmada-Tapti lineament, Godavari and Mahanadi valleys and South Cratonic Belts.
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In a December 2011 report, India identified six most promising geothermal sites for
the development of geothermal energy. These are, in decreasing order of potential:
Tattapani in Chhattisgarh
Surajkund in Jharkhand
India plans to set up its first geothermal power plant, with 25 MW capacity at Puga in
Jammu and Kashmir.
4.2.5 Tidal wave energy
Tidal energy technologies harvest energy from the seas. The potential of tidal wave
energy becomes higher in certain regions by local effects such as shelving, funnelling,
reflection and resonance.
India is surrounded by sea on three sides; its potential to harness tidal energy is significant.
Energy can be extracted from tides in several ways. In one method, a reservoir is
created behind a barrage and then tidal waters pass through turbines in the barrage to generate
electricity. This method requires mean tidal differences greater than 4 meters and also
favorable topographical conditions to keep installation costs low. One report claims the most
attractive locations in India, for the barrage technology, are the Gulf of Khambhat and the
Gulf of Kutch on India's west coast where the maximum tidal range is 11 m and 8 m with
average tidal range of 6.77 m and 5.23 m respectively. The Ganges Delta in the Sunderbans,
West Bengal is another possibility, although with significantly less recoverable energy; the
maximum tidal range in Sunderbans is approximately 5 m with an average tidal range of 2.97
m. The report claims, barrage technology could harvest about 8 GW from tidal energy in
India, mostly in Gujarat. The barrage approach has several disadvantages, one being the
effect of any badly engineered barrage on the migratory fishes, marine ecosystem and aquatic
life. Integrated barrage technology plants can be expensive to build.
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In December 2011, the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, Government of India
and the Renewable Energy Development Agency of Govt. of West Bengal jointly approved
and agreed to implement India's first 3.75 MW Durgaduani mini tidal power project. Indian
government believes that tidal energy may be an attractive solution to meet the local energy
demands of this remote delta region.
Another tidal wave technology harvests energy from surface waves or from pressure
fluctuations below the sea surface. A report from the Ocean Engineering Centre, Indian
Institute of Technology, Madras estimates the annual wave energy potential along the Indian
coast is between 5 MW to 15 MW per meter, suggesting a theoretical maximum potential for
electricity harvesting from India's 7500 kilometre coast line may be about 40 GW. However,
the realistic economical potential, the report claims, is likely to be considerably less. A
significant barrier to surface energy harvesting is the interference of its equipment to fishing
and other sea bound vessels, particularly in unsettled weather. India built its first seas surface
energy harvesting technology demonstration plant in Vizhinjam, near Thiruruvananthpuram.
The third approach to harvesting tidal energy consists of ocean thermal energy
technology. This approach tries to harvest the solar energy trapped in ocean waters into
usable energy. Oceans have a thermal gradient, the surface being much warmer than deeper
levels of ocean. This thermal gradient may be harvested using modified Rankine cycle.
India's National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) attempted this approach over the last
20 years, but without success. In 2003, with Saga University of Japan, NIOT attempted to
build and deploy a 1 MW demonstration plant However, mechanical problems prevented
success. After initial tests near Kerala, the unit was scheduled for redeployment and further
development in the Lakshadweep Islands in 2005. The demonstration project's experiences
have limited follow-on efforts with ocean thermal energy technology in India.
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Chapter 5
Resources available
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Chapter 6
Problems with India's power sector
India's electricity sector faces many issues. Some are:
Government giveaways such as free electricity for farmers, partly to curry political
favor, have depleted the cash reserves of state-run electricity-distribution system. This
has financially crippled the distribution network, and its ability to pay for power to
meet the demand. This situation has been worsened by government departments of
India that do not pay their bills.
Shortages of fuel: despite abundant reserves of coal, India is facing a severe shortage
of coal. The country isn't producing enough to feed its power plants. Some plants do
not have reserve coal supplies to last a day of operations. India's monopoly coal
producer, state-controlled Coal India, is constrained by primitive mining techniques
and is rife with theft and corruption; Coal India has consistently missed production
targets and growth targets. Poor coal transport infrastructure has worsened these
problems. To expand its coal production capacity, Coal India needs to mine new
deposits. However, most of India's coal lies under protected forests or designated
tribal lands. Any mining activity or land acquisition for infrastructure in these coalrich areas of India has been rife with political demonstrations, social activism and
public interest litigations.
Poor pipeline connectivity and infrastructure to harness India's abundant coal bed
methane and shale gas potential.
The giant new offshore natural gas field has delivered less fuel than projected. India
faces a shortage of natural gas.
Hydroelectric power projects in India's mountainous north and north east regions have
been slowed down by ecological, environmental and rehabilitation controversies,
coupled with public interest litigations.
Theft of Power.
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India's nuclear power generation potential has been stymied by political activism
since the Fukushima disaster in Japan.
Over 300 million (300 million) people in India have no access to electricity. Of those
who do, almost all find electricity supply intermittent and unreliable.
Lack of clean and reliable energy sources such as electricity is, in part, causing about
800 million (800 million) people in India to continue using traditional biomass energy
sources namely fuel wood, agricultural waste and livestock dung for cooking and
other domestic needs. Traditional fuel combustion is the primary source of indoor air
pollution in India, causes between 300,000 to 400,000 deaths per year and other
chronic health issues.
India's coal-fired, oil-fired and natural gas-fired thermal power plants are inefficient
and offer significant potential for greenhouse gas (CO2) emission reduction through
better technology. Compared to the average emissions from coal-fired, oil-fired and
natural gas-fired thermal power plants in European Union (EU-27) countries, India's
thermal power plants emit 50% to 120% more CO2 per kWh produced.
The July 2012 blackout, affecting the north of the country, was the largest power grid failure
in history by number of people affected.
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Chapter 7
Role of Government in Power Sector
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Chapter 8
Regulation and administration
The Ministry of Power is India's apex central government body regulating the
electrical energy sector in India. This ministry was created on 2 July 1992. It is responsible
for planning, policy formulation, processing of projects for investment decisions, monitoring
project implementation, training and manpower development, and the administration and
enactment of legislation in regard to thermal, hydro power generation, transmission and
distribution. It is also responsible for the administration of India's Electricity Act (2003), the
Energy Conservation Act (2001) and to undertake such amendments to these Acts, as and
when necessary, in conformity with the Indian government's policy objectives.
Electricity is a concurrent list subject at Entry 38 in List III of the seventh Schedule of
the Constitution of India. In India's federal governance structure, this means that both the
central govern1ment and India's state governments are involved in establishing policy and
laws for its electricity sector. This principle motivates central government of India and
individual state governments to enter into memorandum of understanding to help expedite
projects and reform electricity sector in respective state.
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Conclusion
Energy is vital for development and this means that if India is to move to a higher
growth trajectory than is now feasible, it must ensure the reliable availability of energy. The
present energy scenario in India is not satisfactory. The power supply position prevailing in
the country is characterized by persistent shortages and unreliability and also high prices for
industrial consumers. There is also concern about the position regarding petroleum products.
India depends to the extent of 70-80percent on imported oil, and this naturally raises issues
about energy security. These concerns have been exacerbated by recent movements in
international oil prices. Electricity is produced domestically but its supply depends upon the
availability of coal, exploitation of hydro power sources and the scope for expanding nuclear
power, and there are constraints affecting each source.
These analyses have shown that India will have to plan for the fulfillment of its
energy needs based on a judicious mix of the natural resources endowed to it, keeping
sustainable development in focus and having a minimum carbon foot print. Developed
countries of the world also need to understand that climate change is phenomenon which has
no boundaries and the world is facing this threat because of skewed policies followed by
them and they are also duty bound to help India attain the goal of achieving energy security
for its population by the transfer of clean [energy] technology and by making available
appropriate funding mechanisms. India, with its vast population and limited natural resources
for meeting its energy requirements, needs to maintain its momentum of growth and this can
be made possible only with clear strategy for use of best possible energy options available.
India needs to have a long term strategy for meeting its energy needs by 2050 and a short
term goal of 2020 which can be small steps towards attaining energy security by 2050.
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