Lok Sabha Question No. 3747 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-12-08
Subject: Electricity Plan
Ministry: POWER
Asked by: SHOBHA KARANDLAJE

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF POWER

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3747 TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.12.2016

## ELECTRICITY PLAN

3747. KUMARI SHOBHA KARANDLAJE:

Will the Minister of POWER be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  Central Electricity Authority (CEA) is working on an Electricity Plan for the next 5 years, which will try to gauge the demand for power in the country;
- (b) if so, the aims and objectives of this plan;
- (c) the  estimated  capacity  addition  of  power  for  12th  plan  period  and the achievements made so far, source-wise;
- (d) the steps being initiated by the Union Government on standards for construction, operation and maintenance of power equipments for renewable electricity systems for grid stability; and
- (e) whether it is a fact that as per the 12th Plan, 40 per cent of power projects were super critical and if so, the details thereof?

## A N S W E R

THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR POWER, COAL, NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY AND MINES

( SHRI  PIYUSH GOYAL )

(a) : For  estimating  the  electricity  demand  of  all  the  States/UT's, Regions  and  for  the  country,  the  Central  Electricity  Authority  (CEA) periodically  carries  out  Electric  Power  Survey.  The  18th  Electric  Power Survey  (EPS)  Report,  the  latest  in  the  series  of  EPS,  was  published  in December, 2011. To reassess the demand for power in the country for the next  five  years  and  beyond,  the  19 th     Electric  Power  Survey  Committee (EPSC) has been constituted by the CEA.

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- (b) : As  per  the  National  Electricity  Policy  2005,  the  National Electricity Plan would include:
- (i) Short-term and long term demand forecast for different regions;
- (ii) Suggested areas/locations for capacity additions in generation and transmission  keeping  in  view  the  economics  of  generation  and transmission, losses in the system, load centre requirements, grid stability,  security  of  supply,  quality  of  power  including  voltage profile etc. and environmental considerations including rehabilitation and resettlement;
- (iii) Integration of such possible locations with transmission system and development of national grid including type of transmission systems and requirement of redundancies; and
- (iv) Different technologies available for efficient generation, transmission and distribution.
- (v) Fuel choices based on economy, energy security and environmental considerations.
- (c) : The likely generation capacity addition from the conventional sources during the 12th Plan period (2012-17) is 1,02,811 MW as against the target of 88537 MW.

As on 31.10.2016, the Capacity addition achieved, so far, from conventional sources during the 12th Plan period is 88928.2 MW, comprising  of  4140.02  MW  from  Hydro,  83788.2  MW  from  Thermal  and 1000 MW from Nuclear.

- (d) : With a view to ensuring maintenance of grid stability subsequent  to  connection  of  a  renewable  energy  generator,  steps  have been taken to amend the Central Electricity Authority (Technical Standards for Connectivity to the Grid) Regulations, 2007 (as amended in 2013). These regulations lay down certain Technical/operational requirements  to  be  met  by  different  kinds  of  generators  including  the renewable  energy  generators  seeking  connectivity  with  the  grid.    The draft amendment to the aforesaid regulations has been published on the CEA website on 08.11.2016 and comments thereon have been invited from members of public till 31.12.2016.
- (e) : During  the  current  plan  period  (2012-17),    power  generating capacity  based  on  super  critical  technology  is  likely  to  be  35,890  MW which is around 41.0% of the total likely coal based capacity addition of 86,750 MW during the same period.

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