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evoluTIon of Power SecTor around 1900 kWh per year by 2030, increasing at a compound annual
Before 1956 (introductory stage)
electricity Supply Act 1948
1 establishment of semi-autonomous State
Electricity Boards (SEBs)
1956-1991 (Nationalisation stage)
Industrial Policy Resolution (1956)
Generation and distribution of power under
2 state ownership
Power losses, subsidies, infrastructure
bottlenecks and resource constraints
1991-2003 (liberalisation era)
Legislative & policy initiatives (1991)
3 Private sector participation in generation
Fast track clearing mechanism for foreign
investoment proposals
Electricity Regulatory Commissions Act (1998)
for establishing central and state regulatory
bodies and rationalisation of tariffs
2003 onwards (Growth era)
4 Electricity Act (2003) and ammendments to this
act to spur competition
Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gram Jyoti Yojana
(DDUGJY) and Integrated Power Development
Scheme for rural and urban areas respectively
Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY)
enabling electrification of all villages and their
tracking using Grameen vidyutikaran App
Amendment in National tariff Policy to focus
on renewable energy
2018: india ranks 4 in power generation out of
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25 Asia Pacific nations; 24 most easiest to do
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business out of 137 countries (World Bank’s
‘Getting Electricity’ ranking)
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growth rate (CAGr) of around 4.3% per annum which is currently at
1181 kWh.
India is the third largest primary energy consumer in the world and
accounted for 5.8% of the global primary energy consumption in 2018.
As per BP Statistical review 2019, India accounts for 12% of the global
coal consumption. The country experienced a large increase in oil
consumption, increasing by 0.3 Mb/d in 2018. renewable energy grew
by 26.9% in the year 2018 with 4.9% renewable energy consumption
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of the world share .
Power Sector
India’s power sector is one of the most diversified in the world.
India relies heavily on conventional fuels to meet its energy demand.
The power generation sources range from conventional sources such
as coal, lignite, natural gas, oil, hydro and nuclear power to viable
non-conventional sources such as wind, solar, and agricultural and
domestic waste. Out of the total installed capacity of 360.5 GW, the
share of thermal is close to 63% while the share of renewable energy
in the overall capacity mix is 22% (~ 81 GW), followed by hydro (~13%)
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& nuclear (~2%) as of July 2019 . During Fy 2018, renewable capacity
surpassed conventional sector addition to the total generation ca-
pacity. The sector has witnessed significant investments in the last
few years, which resulted in reducing the energy and power demand
deficit. In July 2019, country witnessed energy deficit of 0.5% and peak
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demand deficit of 0.7% . The per capita electricity consumption has
increased from 1,010 units in Fy 2015 to 1,181 units in Fy 2019.
The energy generation from conventional fuel observed 4.48%
growth to reach at 1,249 bn units (Fy 2019) as compared to gener-
ation of 1,048 bn units (Fy 2015 ). The overall generation (Including
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generation from grid connected renewable sources) in the country
has been increased from 1110.5 BU during 2014-15 to 1376 BU during
2018-19.
Share of renewable (including hydro above 25GW) in total elec-
tricity generation increased from 6% in 2014-15 to 10% in 2018-19.
no. of transmission lines have increased from 313437 ckm in 2014-15
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to 413407 ckm in 2018-19 .
A number of policy and reform for distribution sector like SAUBH-
AGyA, Affordable 24x7 Power for All, IPDS, UDAy, UJALA, Energy Effi-
ciency etc. for growth of the sector has been introduced. Government
of India launched “Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar yojana (SAUB-
HAGyA)” on September 2017 to achieve universal household electri-
shaping new energy dimensions