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ALL INDIA INSTALLED CAPACITY

ALL INDIA INSTALLED CAPACITY

Monday, January 3, 2011

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: 8Higher 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. 8The 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 8The 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. 8The land requirement mould be lower by 24,483 acres, which means saving deforestation displacing people of a mid size town. 8The 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.

The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has approved Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited’s (MSEDCL) petition for adoption of tariff for procurement of 2000 MW (-20%/+30%) power on long term basis under the International Competitive Bidding Process under Case-1 Stage-2.
  • The levelised tariff for the successful bidders as approved by the Commission stands at Rs 2.879/kWh for Emco Energy Limited, Rs 3.260/kWh for Indiabulls Power Limited and Rs 3.280/kWh for Adani Power Maharashtra Limited. 
  • Importantly, the Commission on scrutinizing the PPAs signed between MSEDCL and the selected bidders, has noticed certain differences from the Standard Bidding Document (SBD), wherein some important clauses as given in the SBD have been either modified or deleted. For instance, a clause in the SBD which calls for the seller to be responsible for maintaining transmission linkage is absent in the PPAs signed by Adani Power and Indiabulls Limted. 8Another important deviation that has been noticed is the difference in scheduled delivery dates for different sellers. Pertinently, for Indiabulls Power Limited and Emco Energy Limited, the scheduled delivery date is mentioned as "not less that four years from the date of PPA being effective" whereas for Adani Power Maharashtra Limited the same is mentioned as "four years from effective date". The SBD requires the procurer to clearly mention the scheduled delivery date in the PPA. 
  • The Commission has thus asked MSEDCL to submit the final PPAs after incorporating the observations made by the Commission. Also, MSEDCL has been directed to submit a detailed status report of all its competitive bidding process, both completed as well as ongoing along with the status of the said power projects, apart from submitting half yearly progress report of each project under Case 1 Stage 2. 

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