Highlighting high growth potential of domestic power sector, Power Minister Piyush Goyal has asserted that power sector has the potential to attract $250 billion investments over the next five years, of which $100 billion will come from renewable energy sector and $50 billion for the transmission networks.
Piyush Goyal added that at present the country produce one trillion units power a year and aim is to take it to two trillion by 2019. Renewable and stranded gas-based power plants only produce around 10 percent of total number of units and thus need to be revived. Minister further added that the government is taking measures to overcome fuel challenges to provide power to all 1.2 billion people. Government is planning to double coal production target to one billion tonnes in the next five years to meet rising energy demands in the country. The Minister also called for an increasing private sector role in coal production and expressed interest in new gas discoveries and ways to get gas plants back on stream.
Industry installed power capacity stands at around 248 GW, out of which coal-fired plants account for about 59% and hydro plants accounts for around 17% of India's totalled installed electricity capacity. Presently, coal shortage in the country has become a key concern for Indian power sector. Indian domestic coal demand is around 35 percent higher than domestic supply. Coal India (CIL) is the only producer of coal in the country, which is struggling to meet domestic coal requirements. CIL production fell 4.21 percent short of its production target to 462.53 million tonnes in FY14 amid concerns like shutdown of mining activities in Talcher Coalfields in Odisha. The government has set coal production target at 507 million tonnes to Coal India for FY15.
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