Report of Indian Institute of Public Administration ... - Ministry of Power

AUGMENTATION OF SUPPLY
State Reports (Vol.-III)
Study on `Impact of Restructuring of SEBs’
Uttar Pradesh is facing a severe power shortage. The quality of supply throughout the
State is extremely erratic and pitiful. The poor supply situation is choking industrial and
commercial growth in the State, and in turn, affecting economic development of the
State.
The State needs to augment its generation capacity urgently, to improve supply
conditions. This is even more critical in view of the State taking considerable initiatives
in creating a rural distribution infrastructure under the RGGVY. The benefits of the
investments made under the scheme would not be clearly known unless there is adequate
power in the system to cater to the increased demand in the State from the newly
electrified rural areas.
The 1,000 MW Anpara-C power project has been awarded to a private enterprise. There
are also talks of considerable capacity creation by Reliance Energy in the State. Uttar
Pradesh needs to ensure that such capacity creation gets off the ground at the earliest
possible to meet the National Electricity Plan target of Power for all by 2012.
REFERENCES
Considerable information was sought in requisite formats from the State utilities of Uttar
Pradesh for compilation of this report. However, the response of the utilities has not been
upto expected levels. This has hampered deriving clear trends of operating and financial
efficiencies of the restructured entities in comparison to the erstwhile vertically
integrated UPSEB. The Study has, therefore, heavily relied on information available
from the tariff orders of UPERC issued from time to time, CEA and other sources.
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