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Sector Overview
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Overview of Indian Power Sector
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Overview of Indian Power Sector
Important Links
India has installed power
generation capacity of
163669.80 MW as on
July 31, 2010, which is about 120
times the installed capacity in 1947 (1362 MW). Electricity
generation growth has been steadily improving year after year, and during April
2009 - March 2010, the total electricity generation was about 771.551 billion
units of energy.
The
Region-wise and Category-wise break-up of installed capacity is given below:
(All figures in MW)
S.
No.
Region.... Details
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Power Sector Performance
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Updated: August 2011
Power Sector Performance
Important Links:
Policies, Programmes, Schemes and
Projects of Ministry of Power During 2011-12 (September 2011)
Highlights of Planning
Commission's Paper on 'Approach to the Twelfth Five
Year Plan (August 2011)
Review of Capacity
Addition During Year 2011-12 (August 2011)
Summary of the Discussion on
Issues Affecting the Power Sector in XII Plan (August 2011)
Brief on Indian Power Scenario for XI &XII Plan
(August 2011)
Presentation on Financing of Power Projects to High Level Committee (August
2011)
Summary of Estimated Investment and
Financing of the Power Sector in the XII Plan (August 2011)
Summary....Details
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Power Scenario at a Glance (January 2011 & archives)
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CEA's Report on Power Sector
Scenario at a Glance
(1.11
MB)
January 2011
(1.10
MB)
November 2010
(1.04
MB).... Details
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Guest Column
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R V Shahi's Weekly Guest Column for Infraline
R V Shahi's Weekly Guest Column
for Infraline.... Details
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Capital costs of coal mining project - By Dipesh Dipu, Director - Consulting (Mining), Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India (Pub on Sep 9, 2011)
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Capital costs of coal mining project
By Mr Dipesh
Dipu, Director - Consulting (Mining), Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India
Private Limited
The coal mining sector that has been
opened partially through captive mining route has seen allocation of 208 coal
blocks to private sector, government-owned power generation and other downstream
companies. These coal blocks, however, have had limited success in terms of
operationalisation on time and at budgeted costs. These have led to serious
concerns for coal supplies for power generation sector in India.
One of the key concerns for the
development of the coal mines in India has been the quantum of capi....Details
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R V Shahi (Former Secretary, MoP).... Details
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Regulation in Petroleum Sector: Need to cover Upstream Segment (June 30, 2011)
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Regulation in
Petroleum Sector: Need to cover Upstream Segment
[R V Shahi's
Weekly Column for Infraline, June 30, 2011]
All the important business
dailies have carried the news that the Petroleum Ministry is opposed to the
recommendation of the Committee, headed by Mr. Chawla for upstream Regulator in
petroleum sector.
Petroleum products are
important fuel inputs for almost every aspect of our activities. Fuel needs of
industry, transport, service and households are met by oil and gas and various
other products in the petroleum group. Unfortunately, our dependence on import,
in this sector have increased to an extent that almost 84% of the demands are to
be met through import,....Details
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Perform, Achieve and Trade Initiative to tackle Power Shortage (Pub on July 5, 2011)
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Perform,
Achieve and Trade Initiative to tackle Power Shortage
[R V Shahi's
Weekly Column for Infraline, July 6, 2011]
The phenomenon of power
shortage was always there, continues to be so, and it seems, it would remain for
quite some time. In the recent years, in view of wider private sector
participation, and also larger public sector outlays, capacity addition
programmes have entered a different phase in which we can expect 60,000 to
70,000 MW of capacity, may be even more, every five year. In spite of this, the
demand for power will continue to grow, and it should, if we have to accelerate
the economic growth to the level target and also enhance the quality of life of
our peo....Details
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Development of Coal Industry: The formula on sharing of profit may not help its expansion, nor the people (Pub on July 14, 2011)
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Development
of Coal Industry: The formula on sharing of profit may not
help its expansion,
nor the people
[R V Shahi's
Weekly Column for Infraline, July 14, 2011]
Development of minerals in India has been
regulated through the Mines and Minerals Development and Regulation (MMDR) Act
of 1957. Though there are a few legislations meant exclusively for coal
industry, but the MMDR Act is the over arching legislation which governs
development of all mines and minerals including coal mines. Obviously in the
last fifty years, since this legislation came into existence, there are
experiences of successes and failures. There have been amendments to this Act,
but these have no....Details
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Harnessing Hydro Potential to mitigate climate change concerns (May 20, 2011)
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Harnessing
Hydro Potential to mitigate climate change concerns
[R V Shahi's
Weekly Column for Infraline, May 20, 2011]
Indian power sector is excessively loaded in
favour of fossil fuel based installed capacity. In fact, the thermal based
power generation constitutes almost 80% of the total power produced. This
includes coal, liquid fuel, gas and nuclear fuel based power generated.
Hydroelectric power generation is not even 20%. Even though, the installed
capacity of hydroelectric power plants constitutes about 21%, the proportion of
power produced is only around 15%. While the emphasis to accelerate development
of hydroelectric projects has always been there at t....Details
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Nuclear Tragedy in Japan and its implication on Indian Nuclear Power Policy (Apr 13, 2011)
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Nuclear
Tragedy in Japan and its implication on Indian Nuclear Power
Policy
[R V Shahi's
Weekly Column for Infraline, April 13, 2011]
In last couple of weeks, not only the tragedy at
Fukushima (Japan) have been widely reported in press and media on a global
basis, but also in India our nuclear industry and nuclear plants have come in
sharp focus. The Government initiatives to expand nuclear power capacity are
being viewed with serious concerns. Clearly among the intellectuals two schools
of thought have emerged - one trying to still aggressively pursue the case for
massive expansion of nuclear power capacity, defending that Indian Nuclear Power
Sector has demonstrated....Details
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Power Sector Finances: Deteriorating Trend but can be fixed (Mar 21, 2011)
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Power Sector
Finances: Deteriorating trend but can be fixed
[R V Shahi's
Weekly Column for Infraline, March 21, 2011]
Mercados India had organized a day long
Conference at Delhi on 11th February, 2011 to discuss the findings of
the study they have done on Power Sector Finances. Accordingly, they captioned
the Presentation Mending Power Sector Finances - PPP as the Way Forward. I
had the opportunity to respond and make my comments just after the Presentation
by Mercados. Following my observations, there were a number of clarifications
and questions raised which were appropriately responded. In this Article, I
wish to summarise the comments made by me and also cover importan....Details
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Vibrant Gujarat: Performing Power Sector But Areas of Concern - Part II (Jan 28, 2011)
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Vibrant
Gujarat: Performing Power Sector But Areas of Concern
(Part-II)
[R V Shahi's
Weekly Column for Infraline, January 28, 2011]
In the first Part, I had covered three of the six
major challenges, which I had identified as macro level issues. In this paper, I
wish to cover the remaining three as well as important issues concerning
Gujarat.
Growth of Energy and Climate Change Concerns
After several decades of rather lower growth
rates of economy, it is only during last few years that the GDP growth rate
has been in the range of 8 to 9%, and this has given confidence that we can
achieve double digit growth rate, but definitely 9% on a sustain basis....Details
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Vibrant Gujarat: Performing Power Sector But Areas of Concern - Part I (Jan 17, 2011)
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Vibrant
Gujarat: Performing Power Sector But Areas of Concern
[R V Shahi's
Weekly Column for Infraline, January 17, 2011]
Vibrant Gujarat is a bi-annual event, launched a few
years back by the Government of Gujarat. Since it is an initiative of the Chief
Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, and he himself spends most of the time during the
event, with various programme sessions and activities, the event attracts
attention of national and international investors and full commitment of the
entire Government machinery. It is precisely for this reason that the private
sector of India and abroad try to formulate projects and schemes for which MOU's
could be signed. They genuinely believe ....Details
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Impracticability of the Policy Notification on Environmental Clearance (Jan 3, 2011)
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Impracticability of the Policy Notification on
Environmental Clearance
[R V Shahi's
Weekly Column for Infraline, January 3, 2011]
About a month back Ministry
of Environment and Forest has issued a Circular regarding Environmental
Clearance for such projects, including thermal power projects, for which coal
supply linkage is essential. According to the Circular dated 1st
November, 2010, All the proposals relating to thermal power projects, steel,
sponge iron and any such other projects, which are largely dependent upon
availability of coal as a raw material, shall be considered only after the firm
coal linkage is available and the status of environment and forestry clearance
of t....Details
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World Energy Outlook 2010 and its relevance to India (Dec 20, 2010)
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World
Energy Outlook 2010 and its relevance to India
[R V Shahi's Weekly Column for Infraline,
December 20, 2010]
International Energy Agency
(IEA), an autonomous organization which was established in 1974 by the OECD
countries to implement International Energy Programmes, has come out recently
with its annual World Energy Outlook 2010. Over the years, projections and
conclusions made by the IEA in its World Energy Outlook, have proved very useful
for all those who are engaged in the policy related issues in different
countries. It would, therefore, be appropriate to analyse the report and see
its relevance in Indian context. However, before the outlook for the year 2010
is discussed, it may be relev....Details
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A few serious concerns of power project developers need urgent remedies (Pub on Dec 9, 2010)
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A few serious
concerns of power project developers need urgent remedies
By R V Shahi,
Former Secretary, Ministry of Power
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India-Tech organized an International Summit on
Power at Mumbai on 27 - 30th October, 2010. The event was inaugurated
by Her Excellency, the President of India, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil.
Dignitaries in the inaugural included Governor of Maharashtra, Chief Minister of
Maharashtra, Union Power Minister and Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra. I
had the honour of delivering the Welcome Address on behalf of India Tech
Foun....Details
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Technical and Managerial Challenges in Transmission and Distribution Sector in Indian Power Industry (Nov 19, 2010)
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Technical and
Managerial Challenges in Transmission and Distribution
Sector in Indian Power Industry
By R V Shahi,
Former Secretary, Ministry of Power
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IEEMA, the premier industry
body of the Indian electrical and electronic manufacturers, organized their
fourth Transmission and Distribution Industry Conclave at Delhi on 26th
November, 2010. They invited me to speak to the CEO's and other senior
professionals of the industry on International versus India Benchmarking with
reference to T&D. In this article, I attempt to summarise the point....Details
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Import of Coal for Power Sector is inevitable, but not at any price (September 13, 2010)
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Import of Coal for Power
Sector is inevitable, but not at any price
[R V Shahi's Weekly Column for
Infraline, September 13, 2010]
M/s McCloskey and Mjunction
organized a two day Indian Coal Markets Conference on August 31st
and September 01, 2010 at New Delhi. I had the opportunity to address the
Conference on the issue of Coal for Power Sector: Demand and Supply
Perspective. Other Panelists also focused on the Power grade Coal. Important
points from the observations made by me, the clarifications sought and given,
and questions - answers, are summarized below:
(a)
It is true that for almost
ten years - during entire period of 90's ....Details
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