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Central electricity authority Annual Report 2009-10
CHAPTER – 10
POWER GENERATION
10.1 Power Generation
Generation of power by the utilities &
IPPs stood at about 771173 million units during
the year 2009-10. This represents the growth of
about 6.6% over the same period during previous
year 2008-09 as per details given below:
Category
Programme
(MU)
Power Generation during 2009-10
Actual
(Tentative)
(MU)
Shortfall(-) /
Excess (+)
(MU)
% of Programme
Growth (%)
w.r.t. previous
year Actual
Generation
Hydro 115,468 106,656* (-)8812 92.4 (-)5.7
Nuclear 19,000 18,654 (-)346 98.2 26.8
Thermal 648,479 640,522 (-)7957 98.8 8.5
Bhutan Import 6,564 5,341 (-)1223 81.4 (-)9.5
Total All India 789,511 771,173 (-)18338 97.7 6.6
*Including generation from some small hydro stations up to 25 MW capacity
It is seen from above table that during the
year 2009 –10:
• Annual growth rate in power generation
was about 6.6% over the same period during
previous year 2008-09.
• Thermal power generation registered
a growth rate of 8.5% mainly due to
improved gas availability at the gas power
plants located on the HBJ gas pipeline due
to allocation of gas from KG D-6 basin
resulting in higher growth rate of 32.6 %.
• Growth rate in nuclear power generation
was 26.8% due to better availability of
nuclear fuel.
• The negative growth in power generation
from hydro power station was mainly due
to less inflows into reservoirs resulting from
low rainfall during monsoon.
The sector-wise PLF/Generation during 2009-10 is given below:
PLF (%) TARGET (MU) ACTUAL (MU)
CENTRAL SECTOR
THERMAL 85.5 261148 264739
NUCLEAR 51.1 19000 18654
HYDRO 43239 40874
Total 323387 324267
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