Demand of Electricity In India

As per the 18th Electric Power Survey (EPS), the estimated power consumption in the country during each year of 12th Five Year Plan period is given below:

Sl. No.	Year	Electricity Consumption (BU)
1.	2012-13	764
2.	2013-14	836
3.	2014-15	915
4.	2015-16	1001
5.	2016-17	1099

The available details of growth of electricity consumption in commercial and industrial categories for 3 years viz., 2008-09, 2009-10 & 2010-11 is given below:

Sl. No.	Year	Commercial (%)	Industrial (%)
1.	2008-09	14.69	3.44
2.	2009-10	10.14	6.78
3.	2010-11	8.38	7.56

As per Planning Commission, capacity addition of 88,537 MW is planned from conventional sources for the 12th Five Year Plan on an all-India basis. 72,339.6 MW is from Thermal Power Plants. The thermal capacity addition comprises of 14,877.6 MW in Central Sector, 13,922 MW in State Sector and 43,540 MW in Private Sector.

The quantum of power likely to be generated from conventional sources are fixed on year to year basis and not for Plan as a whole as the actual power generation depends upon the planned maintenance of generating units, availability of fuel, new capacity addition, the demand by the States and availability of water in case of hydro stations. Accordingly, the source-wise power generation achievement for 2012-13 and the generation target for 2013-14 is given below:

Source	2012-13 # Actual Generation (BU)	2013-14 Generation Target (BU)
Thermal	760.366	812.737
Nuclear	32.871	35.2
Hydro	113.626	122.263
Bhutan Import	4.789	4.8
Total All India	911.652	975
BU= Billion Unit	# Provisional

The Government has notified the National Electricity Policy on 12^th February 2005, which provides direction to the evolution of the power sector within the ambit of the Electricity Act 2003. The objectives of the policy include inter-alia, access to electricity, availability of power, supply of Reliable and Quality power, etc. It seeks to address issues such as Rural Electrification, Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Technology Development and Research & Development (R&D), Energy Conservation, Training and human resource development, Cogeneration and Non- Conventional Energy Sources, etc.

SUMMARY OF STATEWISE SECTORWISE THERMAL CAPACITY ADDITION PROPOSED DURING 12thPLAN
Sl. No.	STATE/ UTs	CENTRAL	STATE	PRIVATE	TOTAL
1	DELHI	0	750	0	750
2	HARYANA	500	0	660	1160
3	HIMACHAL PRADESH	0	0	0	0
4	JAMMU & KASHMIR	0	0	0	0
5	PUNJAB	0	0	3920	3920
6	RAJASTHAN	0	1260	270	1530
7	UTTAR PRADESH	1000	1750	1980	4730
8	UTTARAKHAND				0
9	CHANDIGARH				0
SUB TOTAL NORTHERN REGION		1500	3760	6830	12090
10	CHHATTISGARH	660	1500	10680	12840
11	GUJARAT	0	1452	1400	2852
12	MAHARASHTRA	1000	1410	7890	10300
13	MADHYA PRADESH	1000	1700	4280	6980
14	GOA	0	0	0	0
15	DAMAN & DIU	0	0	0	0
16	DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI	0	0	0	0
SUB TOTAL WESTERN REGION		2660	6062	24250	32972
17	ANDHRA PRADESH	0	2200	6160	8360
18	KARNATAKA	0	0	0	0
19	KERALA	0	0	0	0
20	TAMIL NADU	2250	1800	660	4710
21	PUDUCHERRY	0	0	0	0
SUB TOTAL SOUTHERN REGION		2250	4000	6820	13070
22	BIHAR	4690	0	0	4690
23	JHARKHAND	1000	0	1080	2080
24	ODISHA	0	0	3960	3960
25	SIKKIM	0	0	0	0
26	WEST BENGAL	1200	0	600	1800
SUB TOTAL EASTERN REGION		6890	0	5640	12530
27	ARUNACHAL PRADESH	0	0	0	0
28	ASSAM	750	100	0	850
29	MANIPUR	0	0	0	0
30	MIZORAM	0	0	0	0
31	MEGHALYA	0	0	0	0
32	NAGALAND	0	0	0	0
33	TRIPURA	827.6	0	0	827.6
SUB TOTAL N.EASTERN REGION		1577.6	100.0	0.0	1677.6
34	ANDMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS	0	0	0	0
35	LAKSHDWEEP	0	0	0	0
	TOTAL	14877.6	13922.0	43540.0	72339.6

State-wise and Sector-wise details of proposed thermal capacity addition