department of power annual report 1991-92 - Ministry of Power

11. During 1989-90 the Institute had earned adequate
revenue to meet its non-plan expenditure. No grant-in-aid
was therefore released from the Government during these
years to meet the non-plan expenditure.
The Institute was self-sufficient during 1991-92 also in so
far as non-plan expenditure is concerned.
12. The following major capital projects continued to
be under various stages of execution by the Institute
during the year.
(1) 2500 MVA High Power Testing station Rs. 9744.00 Lakhs
(2) UHV/AC Research Laboratory, Hyderabad Rs. 1705.53 Lakhs
(3) Thermal Power Research Centre, Koradi
(Nagpur) Rs. 1718.17 Lakhs
(4) Regional Testing Laboratory, Murandnagar Rs. 636.00 Lakhs
(U.P.)
13. Under Phase I of the long term R&D co-operation
programme with CESI, Italy, engineers and scientists of
CPRI and CESI have jointly worked on many projects
concerning topics and problems of current interest.
14. CPRI received one award each from Institute of
Electrical Engineers, Japan, National Design Award by
Instititution of Engineers (India) and 3 awards from
CBI &P during the year 1991.
15. Training programme for middle level officers to
give exposure to Research and Development work as well
as testing facilities at CPRI were conducted.
16. Several software packages developed by CPRI in
the field of distribution planning, transmission tower
design analysis, load forecasting, load scheduling etc.,
have found favour with utilities who are approaching
CRPI for using the software.
6.33 ENERGY MANAGEMENT
CENTRE
Energy Management Centre was established by the
Government of India in April 1989 to act as a focal point
for exchange of experience among energy institutes within
India and has a Centre for information, research and
training activities in the energy field based on cooperation
between India and the European Communities.
The institutional structure for determing and directing
energy policies is a two-tired one. The Energy
Conservation Cell in the Department of Power, Ministry
of Power & NES, formulates policy, designs the energy
management programme and ensures effective
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co-ordination between interested Ministries and other
entities. The Energy Mangement Centre is the executive
agency under this policy function, designed to implement
and monitor the Energy Conservation programme.
Role as Coordinator:
There are a number of institutions in the field of energy
management today which are doing highly competent and
effective works in this field. It has been felt that there has
to be an organisation for taking over overall strategic
vision supported by quantitiative analysis of work being
done in the field of energy management so far in the
country and also steps to be taken to improve energy
efficiency further. Energy Management Centre has
therefore been set up as a Centre of excellence for
research, training and information in energy policy and
management. The Centre is a focal point of institutional
network between India and the European Communities.
Organisation of the Centre:
EMC has been registered as a Society under the
Registration of Societies Act 1860, so that it functions as
an independent and autonomous body. This gives it the
responsibility and required flexibility to make its
operations more dynamic.
Its Operational Headquater is in Delhi while the Training
Headquarter is at Nagpur.
Activities of the Centre:
The activities of EMC are as follows:
- develop a National Energy database by collecting and
analysing data on energy supply, demand and
information on prices;
- identify barriers for improving energy efficiency and
propose appropriate incentives and other measures to
overcome them. These would include
recommendations for assistance with capital
investment, taxes, duties and other financial
incentives;
- review laws and regulations that have an impact on
energy consumption and propose modifications and
formulate suitable policies and actions;
- suggest introduction of standards and lables and
setting of consumption targets, - provide planning
assistance to government agencies, organise public
information and promotional campaigns on an ongoing
basis;
- organise sector specific promotional campaigns for
the main energy consuming sectors (industry,
transport, agriculture, commercial and government
buildings). Also provide technical assistance in the
field of energy efficiency to these sectors;
- promote energy audits in enterprises and provide
recommendations to improve energy efficiency