The Haryana government on Thursday claimed that the state was hopeful of pushing its installed power generation capacity by around 5,000 megawatts in the next two years. It claimed that the capacity was likely to touch 14,374MW by 2013-14.
This was disclosed by Tarun Bajaj, managing director of the state's electricity transmission company, Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam (HVPN), at the technical coordination sub-committee (TCC) meeting of the Northern Regional Power Committee. Bajaj said that the peak power demand in the state was hovering around 5,000MW at present, which translates into 1,000 lakh units a day.
By the end of March the demand is expected to increase to 11,155MW with a 15% annual growth. There are indications that the state's own generation capacity is likely to increase to 9,700MW by March end.
Bajaj claimed that the state has achieved the targets set in the 10th Five-Year Plan which shows that Haryana is moving ahead to become power-surplus. A government spokesperson said that the main reason behind high growth of power demand in Haryana and particularly in the NCR cities of Haryana is their proximity to Delhi.
Bajaj said that Haryana has entered a new phase of developing and augmenting power transmission system with the signing of the first ever transmission agreement in the country with viability gap funding (VGF) support from the Central government. This is also the first project in public-private-partnership mode in any sector in Haryana with VGF support.
He said that the mounting demand of power, expanding network, voltage upgradation and technological sophistication called for bigger financial commitments. The need was felt for attracting private finance and technical inputs by taking the PPP route for development construction and operation and maintenance of power projects.
Later in the day, Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia also told the state Assembly that a nuclear power plant of 2,800MW capacity (four units with 700MW each) is being set up at Gorakhpur village in Fatehabad district. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) has undertaken pre-project activities for two units of 700MW each which are proposed to be set up in Phase I of the project. The land acquisition proceedings are in progress.
Pahadia, who was delivering his address at the opening of the budget session of Haryana Vidhan Sabha said that there has been a huge increase in the supply of power to consumers on an average daily basis as it has increased to 1,009 lakh units as against 578 lakh units in 2004-05.
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