Event Description
For the past ten years, cumulative average growth rate for electricity generation in India has been close to 6%. During the year 2016-17, total electricity generation was about than 1430 billion units. It will be more than 1500 billion units in 2017-18. Considering rate of economic growth, linkage between economic growth and electricity requirements, increasing urbanization and current low per capita electricity availability, electricity generation in India is likely to exceed 8000 billion units by the middle of this century. Environmental sustainability enjoins on India to generate a significant fraction of the total generation by low-carbon technologies that is nuclear, hydro, solar and wind. Considering that total potential of hydro, solar and wind is only about one-fourth of the projected electricity requirements, nuclear must play a dominant role.
Through the webinar, Dr. Ravi Grover, Emeritus Professor, Homi Bhabha National Institute & Member, Atomic Energy Commission, will explain the readiness of India’s nuclear sector to accelerate growth in nuclear installed capacity.
Key Points Covered:
- Global issues
- Estimating demand in India and supply options to bring out the role of nuclear.
- Economics – system costs
- Tariff on electricity from nuclear power plants in India
- Options for growth
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Readiness
- — Characteristics of industry
- — Policies; closed fuel cycle
- — Managing waste
- Comparative risks
- Summary
Who Should Attend?
- Utilities
- EPC & Developers
- Private Companies/Government bodies
- Energy solutions and service providers
- Software, hardware and communication providers
- Institutions/Colleges
- Policy Maker & Regulatory bodies
- sInternational service providers