28.6.08

Maharashtra to have no load shedding by 2012

Maharashtra will see no load shedding in 2011-12, if the Managing Director of state-owned power generation company Mahagenco is to be believed.By 2011-12, the total power demand will be 23,873 megawatts (MW). At present, availability is 11,667 MW. So the difference between demand and availability will be 9,468 MW. But, within the next three years, Mahagenco will be able to add an additional capacity of 5,655 MW through various under-construction power projects and capacity addition.Through a ‘load management system’, which will be implemented fully by around this year-end, Maharashtra is expected to save around 2,742 MW.
Apart from this, the state will get another 3,255 MW from the central power pool and additional power from private players too.
Mehta also said that the technology currently in use at various ther
mal power projects is sub-critical technology, which has a 35-37 per cent heat efficiency.Mahagenco has already started measures to implement the latest ‘super-critical technology’ which has the maximum heat efficiency in the world of around 42 per cent. All three units of the Koradi Power plant, where each unit has a power generating capacity of 660 MW, will use this technology. This is expected to be commissioned by 2012-13.Last year, Maharashtra witnessed a 14 per cent growth in sales and a 7 per cent growth in the number of consumers. Around 1,25,000 agricultural connections were added and 9,12,000 households across the state were given power connection.

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