Goyal launches power reports

#Union Minister of State for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines, Piyush Goyal has released reports on ‘Renewable Energy Integration: Transmission an Enabler’, ‘Green Energy Corridor II’ and ‘Electricity Demand Pattern Analysis’, in New Delhi on Dec 21, 2016.

The ‘Renewable Energy Integration: Transmission, an Enabler’ report covers the study of balancing and stability issues for 15 per cent and 30 per cent RE capacity penetration and the aspects of Balancing Reserve Analysis with Thermal Power Plants, both gas and supercritical coal, Reservoir type Hydro and Pumped Storage Plants and the Way forward.

The ‘Green Energy Corridors-II’ (Part-A) report details about the identified capacity of Solar Parks and transmission infrastructure requirement in various states at Intra-State and Inter-state level. It inter-alia covers the financing options available for rationalization of transmission tariff and the challenges to be addressed to facilitate smooth integration of solar power parks.

The two reports were prepared by #Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL).

The ‘Electricity Demand Pattern Analysis’ report covers the analysis of data archived by Power System Operation Corporation Limited since 2008 with insights towards diurnal, seasonal and yearly demand patterns, decomposition of demand data into seasonal trends at all levels – National, regional and individual State level.

The Demand Pattern Analysis may be used by Central and state level planning agencies for Generation, transmission and distribution planning, Identification of areas/sectors with maximum growth and Behavioral pattern of the population residing in that state/ region. It can also be used as valuable input for research by the academia and the industry.

Also, Goyal launched #“Coal Mitra”, a Web portal for flexibility in Utilization of Domestic Coal by transferring the reserves to more cost efficient State/Centre owned or Private sector generating stations. This would lead to lower generation costs and ultimately lesser cost of electricity for the consumers.

The web portal would be used by the State/Central Gencos to display information about normative fixed and variable charges of electricity for the previous month as well as margin available for additional generation so as to enable the utilities identify stations for transfer of coal. It would host data on Operational and Financial parameters of each coal based station; Quantity and source of supply coal to the power plant; and Distance of Power plant form the Coal mine.

Goyal said that the #Power Ministry has given approval for Government and #Public Sector Units to swap coal with private companies.

“I would like to see the Coal sector open up and achieve the next level of Efficiency in power generation. Guidelines for coal swapping would be out in next 30 days,” said the Minister at the report and portal launch event was organized by PGCIL.

The coal swapping initiative is to be cross sectoral and not confined to the power to power sector swaps, he stressed. fii-news.com