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SERC, State utilities and industries were
also present.
2) One officer from CEA participated and gave
presentation on 'Power Policy & Future
Planning' on 23.10.2009 for the interactive
meeting on issues pertaining to Thermal
Power Plants in Bhubneshwar on 23 rd
October, 2009.
3) Two officers from CEA participated
and gave presentations during regional
level meeting on 'Interactive Session on
Tapping of Surplus Power from Captive
Power Plants' held at Bhubneshwar on
22 nd December, 2009.
4) Expert Group on 'Low Carbon Growth
Strategy' has been constituted by Planning
Commission and Chairperson, CEA is a
Member of the Group. One meeting of the
Expert Group has been held.
5) A Task Force on 'Standardization of
Contractual Terms and Conditions for
T&D Projects and CEA Specifications for
Distribution Transformers' is proposed to be
constituted by IEEMA with the help of CEA
to discuss the potential areas to enhance the
co-operation between IEEMA and CEA.
6) CEA participated in the workshops on
“Mitigation of Carbon Tetrachloride (CTC)
from Indian Power Sector”, which were
conducted at Mumbai, Kolkata, Raipur,
Hyderabad and Delhi by association of CEA
and GTZ, Germany.
2.3 Electricity Demand
a) Under existing system, electricity demand
of the country is projected periodically,
normally once in five years, for short and
long timeframes. The demand forecasting
is done by a National level 'Committee of
Experts' constituted by CEA with consent
of the Ministry of Power, by conducting an
exhaustive Electric Power Survey (EPS)
of India. EPS is undertaken by CEA by
obtaining inputs from four Regional Power
Survey Offices which coordinate with
various organizations/utilities. The demand
forecast is the basic input for formulation of
National Electricity Policy, Developmental
Plans and Programmes & Schemes
concerning generation, transmission,
trading, distribution and utilization of
electricity. The demand forecast qualifies
the need for development of various areas of
electricity consumption to orient the growth
of the specified sectors of development
and leads to planned growth in various
categories of electricity consumption.
Electric load forecast also drives the
development of transmission highways and
optimum transmission network for carrying
electricity from generation centres to load
centres. Inter-regional transmission links
for electricity transmission from surplus
region to deficit region is an important input
for planning and development of such links.
The load projections also facilitate planning
of electricity transfer MoU and trading of
electricity for the mutual benefits of surplus/
deficit regions/States.
The latest forecast of electricity demand had
been made by the 17 th Electric Power Survey
Committee(EPSC) and published in March,
2007. The 18 th EPSC has been constituted
by CEA in February, 2010.
The terms of reference of 18 th EPS are:
i) To forecast year-wise electricity
demand for each State, Union Territory,
Region and All India in detail upto the
end of 12 th Plan i.e. for the years 2012-
13 to 2016-17.
ii)
To project the perspective electricity
demand for the terminal years of 13 th
and 14 th Five Year Plans i.e. year 2021-
22 and 2026-27.
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