Hello and welcome once again to Electrical India.
I wish you all a Happy New Year.
Here, we would like to begin the New Year on a positive note with review of Indian power sector’s achievements. The sector has witnessed an unprecedented turnaround during the past three years. Earlier, the sector was marred by continuous shortages and lack of quality and steady supplies to residential as well as commercial sectors. As a result, India has become a net exporter of electricity exporting around 5,798 million units to Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar in 2017.
According to Ministry of Power, within three years, India’s total power capacity has increased by nearly one third from 243 GW in March 2014 to 320 GW in March 2017 and the conventional or coal based power capacity has increased by 26% (one fourth) from 214 GW in March 2014 to 270 GW in March 2017. UDAY scheme launched in end 2015 is gradually making inroads and some early signs of revival are seen although premature to confirm the success. UDAY is likely to provide three fold benefits firstly the transfer of debt load to states to reduce the substantial interest burden leading to immediate release of liquidity for the discoms.
According to India Ratings & Research, the sector is rightly poised to witness a strong growth subject to continued policy impetus. The tremors of the state’s unilateral action could jeopardize the bankability of projects and could risk the 175GW renewable plan of federal government, if left unchecked.
In this issue, we shed light on Losses in Distribution & Transmission Lines. The article covers in detail Technical Losses as well as Non-Technical Losses and also gives solutions for reducing these losses.
The article Efficient Energy Consumption & Economic Growth suggests a need to navigate the energy transition for sustainable growth in socio-economic aspects of the country. Though the energy consumption per GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is higher, production of valuable goods is quite low in the country which shows that there is a need to improve the end use efficiency.
Technical article Harmonics in Power System discusses distribution of the harmonic sources that require close monitoring between OEM & users for making a stringent specification in order to minimize voltage-distortion levels.
Hope you enjoy reading this issue as much as we have in bringing this to you. Please send in your comments and or suggestions to me at miyer@charypublications.in
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