Current electricity generation in india

This post was originally posted by NR Meel at our associate blog www.electroscope.blogspot.com and has been crossposted with due permission of author.

Electric power generation in india is done mostly by government sector entities, and are controlled by various central public sector corporations, like National Hydroelectric Power Corporation, National Thermal Power Corporation ,nuclear power corporation of india and various state level corporations.. The transmission and distribution is by the grid corporation ,State Electricity Boards (SEBs) or private companies.

Current per capita power consumption comes to around 600 units (KWH) per year.

Installed capacity

Grand Total Installed Capacity is 132,110.21 MW.( 2006)Thermal power plants·

• Coal based thermal power is 70,682 MW which contributes 53.3 % of total insatalled base· Gas Based
• Thermal Power is 13,691 MW which contributes around 11% of thermal based power·
• Oil Based Thermal Power contributes around 1% of total thermal power

Current installed base of Thermal Power is 85,575.84 MW which comes to 64.7% of total installed capacity from all sourses.

Hydro power plants

India was one of the poineering states in establishing hydro power plants . Current installed base of Hydro Power is 34,654 MW which comes to 26.2% of total installed capacity. Today Hydro sector has turbines as large as 250 MW and single stage projects as big as 1500 MW Nathpa Jhakri .

Nuclear Power Plants

Currently 17 Nuclear Power reactors produce 4,120 MW which comes to 3.1% of total installed base.

Renewable power

Current installed base of Renewable Power is 6,761 MW which comes to 5.9% of total installed base.

Capacity addition by 2007

As per data (as of May 2006) shared by Power Ministry, addition power of 19,680 MW will be added in remaining period of 10'th Five Year Plan (2002-2007).