The Working Group on Power, constituted by the Planning
Commission to formulate the 12th Five-Year Plan for the
power sector, has submitted its report to the Planning Commission.
As per the report of this working group, capacity addition
requirement during the 12th Plan (2012-2017) is 75,785 MW on all-
India basis.
As per the 18th Electric Power Survey Report, peak demand of
1,99,540 MW and energy requirement of 13,54,874 BU has been
estimated at the end of the 12th Plan i.e.
At the end of the 11th
Five-Year Plan (2011-12),
the country was facing
peak shortage of 13,815
MW (10.6 per cent) and
energy shortage of
79,313 million units (8.5
per cent).
Several measures have
been initiated by the government
to accelerate the
pace of power generation
capacity addition. These
are as follows:
- Augmentation of manufacturing capacity of BHEL from 10,000
MW in December, 2007 to 20,000 MW by 2012.
- Formation of several new joint ventures to manufacture supercritical
boilers and turbine-generators for thermal power plants.
- Periodic review of issues related to supply of power equipment
from BHEL by a group under the chairmanship of secretary
(heavy industry).
- Sensitisation of stake holders to enlarge the vendor base to meet
balance of plants requirements.
- Rigorous monitoring of projects at different levels including by
Ministry of Power, Central Electricity Authority, Power Projects
Monitoring Panel and Advisory Group under the chairmanship of
Minister of Power.
- Introduction of web-based monitoring system.