Karnataka - Hassan   

Power generation to go up by 5,000 MW in five years

Staff Correspondent

Several projects will be launched in the next few days: Revanna

H.D. Revanna

HASSAN: Minister for Public Works and Energy H.D. Revanna said here on Tuesday that the Government was planning to increase power generation by another 5,000 MW in the next five years to meet the growing power requirement of the State.

Addressing presspersons, he said the Government would launch a series of power generation projects in the State with a capacity of 1,280 MW in the next few days.

The projects to be launched include the 280-MW Varahi Power Project and those in Raichur, Bellary, Koushika, Chamalapura and Bidadi.

Arrangements had been made to procure coal, including imported one, to meet the needs of new thermal power plants. He said a wind energy project with a capacity to generate 1,500 MW of power was also in the pipeline.

He noted that the power generation scenario in the State was good with all hydel power generation stations performing well following the copious inflow at various reservoirs.

The Government had taken up a system improvement programme for transmission and distribution of power at a cost of Rs. 3,000 crore.

The State had 580 stations and was planning to add another 450 sub-stations. It would invest Rs. 1,755 crore for this, he added. The process of installing 250 sub-stations would begin in the next two or three months and the setting up of the remaining sub-stations would be taken up in the next one year, he added.

Mr. Revanna said the quantum of power distribution loss had been reduced from 34 per cent to 27 per cent in the State.

It was only 9.5 per cent in Bangalore, which was the highest in the country, and it had been planned to decrease it to a minimum of 15 per cent, he added.

He announced that Karnataka Power Corporation Limited stood second in the country in terms of power production.

With regard to delay in the commencement of work on Nagarjuna Thermal Power Project in Udupi district, he said the Union and State Governments had given clearance to the project and it was now up to the company to commence work.

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