Various steps taken by Government to enhance power generation capacity addition including thermal capacity

Various steps have been taken by the Government to enhance the power generation capacity addition including thermal capacity in the country. These include augmentation of manufacturing capacity of BHEL from 10,000 MW in December, 2007 to 20,000 MW by 2012; periodic review of issues related to supply of power equipment from BHEL by a Group under the chairmanship of Secretary (Heavy Industry); formation of several new joint ventures to manufacture supercritical boilers and turbine-generators for thermal power plants; bulk ordering of 11 units of 660 MW each with supercritical technology with mandatory phased indigenous manufacturing programme to promote indigenous manufacturing; sensitization of stakeholders to enlarge the vendors base to meet Balance of Plants requirements; rigorous monitoring of projects at different levels including by Ministry of Power, Central Electricity Authority, Power Project Monitoring Panel and Advisory Group under the chairmanship of Minister of Power; and introduction of web-based monitoring system. 

NTPC has also planned to enhance their production capacity by adding thermal power plants at various locations in the country which includes 1050 MW Rajiv Gandhi CCPP stage-II at Kayamkulam in Kerala. 

The capacity addition target for the 11th Plan has been revised to 62,374 MW at the time of mid-term appraisal carried out by the Planning Commission. This comprises 50,757 MW thermal capacity. Against this target, thermal projects aggregating to 27,961 MW have already been commissioned till 16.02.2011 during the 11th Plan and the balance capacity is under execution for likely benefits during the 11th Plan.