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Telangana has increased its installed power generation capacity to 16,506 MW from 7,778 MW in 2014 when the State was formed making into one of the fastest growing sectors in the country.
The Telangana government is now gearing up to increase the total capacity to 28,400 MW over the next 4-5 years.
D Prabhakar Rao, Chairman and Managing Director TS Transco and TS Genco, said “We are committed to capacity addition and have received clearances for most of the projects now underway. Currently, projects with a total capacity of 11,600 MW are now under construction.”
During a recent interaction at Vidyut Soudha, Rao said “significantly, Telangana has also added about 3,400 MW of solar power generation capacity to become the State with second highest solar energy generation capacity after Karnataka and our medium term plan is to increase the capacity to 5000 MW.”
“When the State was formed, we started with a deficit of 2,000 MW but we ensured that there was 24x7 power to all consumer sections, offering round the clock power. This was made possible by external purchases made through energy exchanges, and through an agreement with Chhattisgarh,” he explained.
Later, he said “we managed to commission first 800 MW Kothagudem thermal power station in record time much ahead of 48 months deadline. The work on the 1080 MW (270x4) power project is progressing at a hectic pace and we expect this project to be commissioned by the year end.”
Referring to 5x800 MW ultra mega Yadadri power project, Rao said “all the mandatory clearances were received by December 2017, orders for various equipment and construction have been placed and we expect the project to be implemented as per schedule.”
On the recent spurt in power demand leading to a peak demand of 10,500 MW, which the State utilities could meet, Rao said that the demand was about 9191 MW last year same time. This translates to energy demand of 219 million units now versus 180 mu last year, a demand hike of 22 per cent. While the State utilities could contribute 9450 MW, rest was from Chhattisgarh, and Independent Power producers (IPPs) contributed 840 MW.
This power demand may even surge up to 11,000 MW during the peak summer months and the State utilities are well placed to meet the demand, Rao said.
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