MoP - Ministry of Power

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CAPACITY ADDITION PROGRAMME
IN THE XITH PLAN
1. The National Electricity Policy envisages demand for
power to be fully met by 2012 and energy and peaking
shortages to be overcome. This entails provision of
adequate reliable power, at affordable cost with access
to all citizens. Electricity is in the Concurrent List in the
Constitution and the primary responsibility of structuring
its availability and distribution is that of the States.
However, both the Centre and the States have to play
a decisive and positive role. While shortages are
presently being experienced by each region, it is much
more acute in the case of some regions and a large
number of States are affected.
2. The all India installed power generation capacity as on
31.01.2008 was 141080 MW comprising of 90896MW
thermal, 35208 MW hydro,4120 MW nuclear and
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10856MW R.E.S The Central Sector’s share in
generation has gradually increased from 12% in 1979
to 34% as on 31.01.2008. On the other hand the share
of the State Sector has declined from 82.5% to 53%
while the share of private sector has gone up from5.2%
to 13% during the same period.
3. The National Electricity Policy (NEP) stipulates power
for all by 2012 and annual per capita consumption of
electricity to rise to 1000 units from the present level of
631 units. To fulfill the objectives of the NEP, a capacity
addition of 78,577 MW has been proposed for the 11th
plan. This capacity addition is expected to provide a
growth of 9.5 % to the power sector. The break up of
the capacity addition target is given as under:
(in MW)
Sector Hydro Thermal Nuclear Total (MW)
Central 9685 26800 3380 39865 (50.7%)
State 3605 24347 0 27952 (35.5%)
Private 3263 7497 0 10760 (13.8%)
Total 16553 (21%) 58644 (74.6%) 3380 (4.4%) 78577 (100%)
Shri Sushilkumar Shinde, Union Minister of Power addressing the Conference of Chief Secretaries and Power Secretaries of States / UTs on
Power Sector on 23-24 April, 2007