thermal power development - Infraline

Central electricity authority Annual Report 2009-10
The Government of India vide their
Notification No.S.O. 550(E) dated 18 th April,
2006 have fixed the following limits of capital
expenditure for the Hydro Power Development
Schemes exceeding which the concurrence of
Central Electricity Authority is required:-
1) Rs.2500 Crores provided that:
a) Scheme is included in the National
Electricity Plan(NEP) as notified by the
Central Electricity Authority under subsection(4)
of Section 3 of The Electricity
Act, 2003 and the same conforms to the
capacity and type (run-of-river/storage) as
mentioned in NEP; and
b) The site for setting up hydro generating
station has been allocated through the
transparent process of bidding in accordance
with the guidelines issued by the Central
Government under Section 63 of The
Electricity Act, 2003.
2) Rs.500 Crores for any other scheme not
covered by clauses (a) & (b) above.
5.17.1 Techno-Economic Appraisal/
Concurrence of Hydro Schemes
During the year 2009-10, CEA had
appraised and accorded concurrence to three
hydro generation schemes aggregating to
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4570 MW capacity with an estimated financial
investment of Rs. 21650.83 Crores.
5.17.2 Reduction in Cost of Hydro Power
Generation Projects
It has been observed that in most of the
cases, the cost estimates indicated by the project
proponents in their Detailed Project Reports
(DPRs) were on the higher side due to various
reasons. On receipt of the DPRs, the same were
thoroughly scrutinized by the various appraisal
divisions of CEA and CWC/GSI before the
proposals were considered by CEA for its
concurrence.
Review meetings were convened from
time to time by Member (Hydro) CEA with
the project developers and Chief Engineers of
Appraisal Divisions of CEA, CWC and GSI in
order to sort out the outstanding issues/ remove
bottlenecks in the DPRs with the objective of
minimizing the time for appraisal process and
optimizing the proposed capital cost.
During the year 2009-10, three (03)
hydro generation schemes aggregating to 4570
MW capacity were accorded concurrence and
net reduction in estimated cost achieved for
these projects worked out to Rs 3239.32 Crores
(about 13.01%) in hard cost as detailed in
Annexure-5E.
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