India hopes to add 17.19 gigawatts of power generation capacity this financial year through March, according to data issued recently by the Central Electricity Authority, a government body that monitors the power sector.This year's target shows India will miss the capacity addition aim for the five-year plan period until the end of March by 17%. The country added 34.46 GW of capacity between March 2007 and April 2011, Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said on April 5.
India had initially set a target of adding 78 GW of capacity between 2007 and 2012, but later revised the figure downward to 62.37 GW due to delays in building several power projects because of issues relating to coal supply, environment clearances and land acquisitions.As much as 83% of power to be produced in India this year will be based on coal.
Power Secretary P. Uma Shankar said on Dec. 9 that the country will miss its power generation capacity addition target for the five years until March 2012 because some hydroelectric projects have been affected by adverse weather and topography.Energy-hungry India, which has an installed generation capacity of 174.36 GW, plans to add 100 GW in the decade until March 2017 to light millions of rural households and boost the economy.
The electricity generation target for this year has been set at 855 billion kilowatt hours, up from 811.10 billion kilowatt hours last year, the CEA report showed.Peak power demand is expected to be 12.9% more than supply this year, compared with 9.8% last year, according to the report.
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