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India misses Sept power generation target
Gargi Sahai
India’s power generation in September 2010 stood at
64315.32 GWH, falling short by 8.18 percent from the
target set for the month, as per a recent Central Electricity
Authority (CEA) report. The target set for the month was
70042.09 GWH. The energy generation for the same month last
year was 63478.63 GWH, which means India has been able to
generate 1.32 percent energy more than last year in the period.
As always thermal power generation was the highest in
the month, it stood at 47077.92 GWH which was 86.72 percent
of the planned 54288.43 GWH, thermal power generation was
followed by hydro, nuclear and Bhutan IMP at 14250.97 GWH,
2008.99 GWH and 977.44 GWH respectively.
Region wise maximum power generation, 19621.89 GWH
was done by the Western region during the month followed
by the northern region and southern region with generation of
19217.59 GWH and 14312.05 GWH respectively.
The all India energy generation for the period April to
September is 397389.47 GWH.
Capacity addition
India added a total of 742 MW of new power generation
capacity during the month of September, which was
significantly less than the target of 2571 MW for the month,
according to data of Central Electricity Authority (CEA). With
this, the total capacity addition during the first six months of
2010-11 stood at 4935 MW.
Of the total capacity added during the month, 500 MW was
in Thermal category, the addition was don at the Mejia TPS
Extn of Damodar Valley Corporation in West Bengal and 242
MW in Hydro category which included addition of 50 MW at
Kerala State Electricity Board’s Kuttiyadi Addl Extn in Kerela
and 96 MW each at Unit 1 and 2 of Allain Duhangan Hydro
Project Limited’s plant in Himachal.
As per the CEA report a total 4935 MW capacity added was
Category wise Energy Generation Sept 2010
(In percentage of GWH)
22.16%
1.52%
100
90
80
70
60
50
All India PLF For Sept 2010
(In Percentage)
76.13 75.86
68.32
53.25
Source: Central Electricity Authority
69.46
63.88
added during the first half of the current financial year, out of
which 4484 MW was in the thermal category and 451 MW in
the hydro category.
Plant load factor
The Plant Load Factor (PLF) for the country for the month of
September, 2010 stood at 63.88 percent, the plan was to achieve
69.46 percent. PLF is a measure of the output of a power plant
compared to the maximum output it could produce. Sector
wise also none of the sectors could meet their target, the PLF
for the central sector stood at 75.86 percent where the target
was of 76.13 percent, the state sector had a target of 68.32
percent and it achieved 53.25 percent and similarly the private
sector achieved 77.89 percent whereas the target set for them
was 84.20 percent.
Fifteen power stations in the central sector and 17 in the
state sector failed to achieve their target. Simahadri had
the highest shortfall in the central sector of 43.80 percent,
Badarpur was another power station which had high shortfall
of 25.65 percent.
Durgapur Projects Limited (DPL) had the highest shortfall
of 52.95 percent in the state sector, followed by Indraprastha
Power Generation Co Ltd (IPGPCL) and Maharashtra State
Power Generation Co Ltd. (MAHAGENCO) with shortfalls of
51.79 percent and 28.09 percent respectively.
84.2
77.89
Central Sector State Sector Pvt Utl Sector All India
Programme
Achievement
3.12%
Thermal Nuclear Hydro Bhutan Imp
Source: Central Electricity Authority
73.20%
Critical coal stock
Due to less receipt of coal, high generation,constraints in coal
transportation from ports to power station and non receipt of
import of coal as many as 25 power stations in the country
were left with a “critical” coal stock of less than seven days as
on September 30, 2010.
Rihand (78 percent), Obra (84 percent) and Anpara (94
percent) power stations in the northern region and Wanakbori
(68 percent) power station in the western region were the
COAL INSIGHTS 43 October 2010