Haryana Power Minister Ajay Singh Yadav on Wednesday said the State Government has planned to set up a 660-MW thermal unit of super critical technology at Yamunanagar.
A gas-based thermal plant of 1,500 MW is also planned to be constructed in Faridabad and a 2,800 MW nuclear power plant is being set up by the Centre in Fatehabad, he said after laying the foundation stone of a 33 KV substation at village Chormar near Sirsa, according to an official release.
Yadav said that the power generation capacity within the State was only 1587 MW in 2004-05 which has increased to 5300 MW and the total installed capacity has increased to 9921 MW.
To strengthen power transmission and distribution system in the state, the State Government will construct 166 new sub-stations of various levels and augment capacity of 160 existing substations during next three years at a cost of Rs 3,000 crore.
During the current financial year, 20 new substations have already been commissioned and capacity of 37 existing substations has been augmented.
Besides this, a plan of Rs. 2,000 crore is being executed to strengthen power distribution system in the state.
Yadav said that the government has a plan of Rs. 200 crore to strengthen power transmission and distribution system in district Sirsa. Under this plan, the government will set up six new substations and augment capacity of 11 existing substations. The plan includes construction of 12 new substations and augmentation of 27 existing substations.
The Minister said that this plan includes setting up of 5000 new distribution transformers. In addition, 900 old transformers will be replaced with the new transformers of higher capacity. The government will add 314 kilometre long new power distribution lines to the dense distribution net work and all the overloaded and lengthier feeders of 11 KV level will be divided in feeders of proper load and length while old and torn out conductor of a number of feeders will be replaced with new conductor of higher capacity, he added.