Environmental and Social Policy and Procedures : Volume 1. Department of Power, Nagaland
The North Eastern Region (NER) in India is endowed with rich energy resources but faces significant bottlenecks in electricity access and availability levels. The per capita power consumption in NER is one-third of the national average. The region has a shortfall of about 500MW installed capacity...
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Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2015
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/05/24447280/india-north-eastern-region-power-system-improvement-project-safeguards-diagnostic-review-environmental-social-policy-procedures http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21883 |
Summary: | The North Eastern Region (NER) in India is endowed with rich energy resources but faces
significant bottlenecks in electricity access and availability levels. The per capita power consumption
in NER is one-third of the national average. The region has a shortfall of about 500MW installed
capacity against peak demand of about 1950 MW. No significant generation capacity has been added
in the recent past. Therefore, inadequate power supply continues a critical constraint to sustainable
growth and economic development in the NER. Some states are generally not able to draw even their
allocated share of power from the Central Generating Stations (CGS) through the grid due to
poor/inadequate intra/interstate transmission and distribution network and no capacity addition
towards transmission/distribution power system not done due to fund constraints. The transmission
and distribution (T&D) losses are also quite high (up to 50%) across most of the States as a large
number of remote hilly areas are connected through long low tension lines, resulting in low voltages
and poor quality of power at consumer end. While generation capacity addition of about 4000 MW
program over present installed capacity is already underway, adequate transmission and distribution
infrastructure to transmit and distribute this power to consumers within the North-Eastern States is
the need of the day. |
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