Capacity Addition (Generation and Transmission)
· Thermal capacity of 1560 MW has been added during the month of November, 2013 after commissioning of Dhariwal TPP Unit-I (300 MW), Shree Singaji TPP Unit-I (600 MW) and Barh STPS St:-II, Unit – IV (660 MW).
· Hydro capacity of 75 MW has been added during the month of November, 2013 after commissioning of Nimmo Bazgo, HEP, Unit-I (15 MW) in J&K by NHPC and Uri-II, HEP, Unit-II (60 MW) in J&K by NHPC
· In the transmission sector 286 ckm of 220 kV AC Lines and 940 ckm of 400 kV AC Lines have been laid during the month of November, 2013.
· No Nuclear capacity has been added during the month of November, 2013.
Re-structured APDRP in 11th & 12th Plan:
Part-A projects worth Rs. 5233.65 crore covering all the eligible towns (1398) in the country have already been sanctioned. So far, 70 Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) projects worth Rs. 1574.71 crore have also been sanctioned for Eighteen States/UTs (Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Bihar, Punjab, West Bengal, Assam, J&K, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, and Puducherry) under Part-A. So far, 1229 projects worth Rs. 30381.46 crore have been approved to Twenty-five States/UTs (Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh Maharastra, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, J&K, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Meghalaya, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Pudducherry) under Part-B.
Status of RGGVY in 11th & 12th Plan
As on 30th November, 2013, 1,07,782 villages have been electrified and free electricity connections have been provided to 213.88 lakh BPL households under RGGVY.
Generation Performance
The overall generation during the month of November, 2013 was 77,254.18 Million Units (MUs) as compared to 72,965 MUs generation achieved during the corresponding month of the last year.
A growth of 3.34% in thermal generation, 29.18% in hydro generation, 1.86% in nuclear generation and 70.78% in the imported power from Bhutan have been achieved in the month of November, 2013 in compare to the corresponding month of the last year.
During the month 5.88% growth was registered in generation as compared to the generation performance of November, 2012.
There was a shortage of 3159 million units in supply as compared to demand during November, 2013* whereas the shortage was 7274 million units during the same period last year i.e., while shortage was 9.3 per cent in November, 2012, it was only 4.1 per cent in November, 2013*.
Shortage of peak power demand was 2.9% in November, 2013 as compared to 9.1% in November, 2012.
*Provisional