Power requirement in the nation is estimated to be 1,650.59 billion units in 2022-23 whereas it was 1,141.94 billion units until January of the continued fiscal yr, Parliament was knowledgeable on Tuesday. In monetary yr 2020-21, energy requirement was 1,275.53 billion units (BU), Power Minister R Okay Singh mentioned in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.
The minister additionally knowledgeable the House that the height energy demand was 2,03,014 MW until January 2021-22 and it’s estimated to contact 2,38,899 MW in the following monetary yr.
The minister offered the knowledge as per estimates of the nineteenth Electric Power Survey
Singh additionally mentioned, “as on December 31, 2021, the put in technology capability of the nation was round 393 GW. Further, to meet the longer term demand of electricity as projected in nineteenth EPS, by March 31, 2030, the put in technology capability is deliberate to be round 817 GW.”
India has strong transmission grid capability. Power from one state to one other state can be transmitted by means of Electricity Grids. The cumulative inter regional transmission capability of the National Grid as on January 31, 2022 was 1,12,250 MW, which has ensured seamless switch of energy in Electricity Grids, he acknowledged.
In one other reply to a supplementary query of BJP chief Kirodi Lal Meena about investigation into incidents of embezzlement in the works underneath Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS) in Rajasthan, Singh mentioned,”We will send a team, not all schemes, but verify about randomly selected schemes that whether work is done as it was sanctioned. We will conduct an inspection of this.”
Meena had raised the problem saying that Centre supplies 60 per cent of the funds underneath the scheme for numerous works.
Source : PTI
