In the backdrop of increased power supply demands, maintaining grid discipline is a big challenge and the safety of western power grid is the responsibility of all member institutions.
These views were expressed by delegates on the inaugural day of a two-day convention of West Region Power Committee (WRPC) that began here on Wednesday.
Notably, WRPC is the biggest committee of different power institutions across India. The combined capacity of power companies falling in western region is 119589 MW.
Several key issues like bridging the gap between power demand and availability, maintaining grid discipline, electricity production through new projects and construction of new line for power transmission were discussed in the convention.
President of WRPC’s Technical Committee and Managing Director of Chhattisgarh State Power Generation Company limited (CSPGCl) SB Agrawal while addressing the convention said that Chhattisgarh has been blessed with huge mineral resources. The easy availability of power in
Chhattisgarh has established Chhattisgarh among leading states.
“Basic requirement for power production is easily available here as a result Chhattisgarh has emerged as power hub in a very short duration. The total transmission capacity of Chhattisgarh is 23205 MVA and about 46 lakh consumers in different parts of the State are enjoying 24 hours un-interrupted power supply,” he said.
Member Secretary, WRPC SB Taksande opined that in the view of increased power supply demands, maintaining the grid discipline is a big challenge and the role of western states in upholding the modal parameters of Indian Power Grid Code is worth applauding.
Managing Director of Chhattisgarh State Power Transmission Company limited (CSPTCl) Ankit Anand opined that Chhattisgarh has specially focussed on developing power generation and transmission system.
“Today continuous and cheap power supply is a big challenge and our power institutions have succeeded to some extend in addressing this challenge,” he said.
It may be mentioned that in the month of February this year the power demand of states in western region was 45110 MW to which power availability was 45071 MW. Notably, Chhattisgarh achieved actual cumulative power generation of 40,173.66 million units (MU) from conventional power stations based in the State of above 25 MW capacity between April-September, 2015, according to the monthly report of the Central Electricity Authority (CEA).
This was compared to 38773.39 MU generated during the corresponding period of the previous year—a growth of 3.61 per cent, it stated.
Chhattisgarh would have 26,012 million units of power available during 2015-16 against the anticipated requirement of 24,980 million units during 2015-16, according to a report of the Central Electricity Authority (CEA).
The State would have 1032 million units (MU) of surplus power generated during 2015-16 and the peak requirement is anticipated at 3,825 MW against the anticipated availability of 3,857 MW- a surplus of 32MW, it stated.
As per CEA's actual power supply position versus load Generation Balance Report ( lGBR) for the year 2014-15, the actual energy shortage in the western region during 2014-15 was higher than the forecasted figure on account of higher energy requirement as compared to availability, the report pointed out.
All the states of western region experienced lower shortages during 2014-15. Chhattisgarh had energy shortage of 1.3 per cent against forecast surplus of 40.9 pc due to much lower energy availability than the forecast.
Gujarat did not face any energy shortage against a forecast surplus of 4.1 pc. Madhya Pradesh faced actual energy shortage of 0.5 pc against a forecast surplus of 5.1 pc due to lower energy availability, it stated.
