Power India found that the Planning Commission and Power Ministry officials are going to meet tomorrow to narrow the gap differences of likely power capacity addition and to finalize the 12th Plan targets for the capacity addition in the Power Sector.
As posted by us earlier, Power Ministry expects that at max 76,000 MW of capacity addition can be done during the 12th Plan, whilst the Planning Commissions says the same should be over 90,000 MW.
The meeting is expected to be chaired by Planning Commission Member B K Chaturvedi.
The Power Ministry has pitched for capacity addition target of about 76,000 MW in the 12th Plan, considering the backdrop of acute fuel shortages impacting electricity generation.
Further as per the data provided by CEA, capacity addition during 11th Plan was only 55,000 MW against the reduced target of 62,000 MW. (which earlier targeted at 79,000 MW)
As expected by the Power Sector professionals, Thermal projects are expected to account for more than 50,000 MW of capacity addition and out of that around 50% will come from super critical capacity (Unit capacity > 660 MW).
This is envisaged by the current capacity construction going in the country which is having around 35,290 MW under construction super critical projects.
On the estimated fund requirement side; the same is expected to be around Rs 13,72,580 Crores for the power sector out of which the power generation segment will need around Rs. 6,38,000 Crores and power distribution segment will need around Rs. 3,06,235 Crores.
More on this topic…
-------------------
No comments:
Post a Comment