A study conducted by Wartsila India Limited has indicated that the introduction of High Efficiency High Flexibility Distributed Power (HEHFCDP) technology in the country's energy generation mix will lead to potential revenue savings of Rs 13,050 crore a year and capex savings of upto Rs 38,900 crore in the 12th Plan period. Further, the study revealed that the combination of base-load and the peaking plants or HEHFDP plants would offer the following significant benefits to the nation:
- Higher efficiency would result in reduced fuel consumption to the extent of 264,191 bn Kcal per year, leading to an improvement of over 6% of primary energy savings in power sector.
- The carbon emission would come down by 113 million tons per annum, which would be close to 10% reduction in carbon emissions from the power sector
- The water consumption would be lower by 470 million cubic meter per annum, enough to meet the water needs of a city like Mumbai year after year.
- The land requirement mould be lower by 24,483 acres, which means saving deforestation displacing people of a mid size town.
- The investment on transmission network could be reduced by Rs 12,800 crore in the 12th Plan period.
- Importantly, in order to arrive at the optimum generation mix in the Indian context, Warsila carried out a study by doing a case study of Maharashtra and by considering two scenarios-- the present scenario, where growth in generation capacity happens pre-dominantly through addition of base-load plants, and an alternative scenario, based on a mix of base-load generation and peaking plants, with their inherent feature of high efficiency and flexibility of operation.
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