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| Detailed vision of 2012 related to hydro
power |
| Hydroelectricity is clean energy and
its generation is not linked to issues concerning fuel supply, especially
the price volatility of imported fuels. It enhances our energy security
and is ideal for meeting the peak demand. Its share has gradually
declined. Therefore, thermal generation, which should generally be
used for base load operation, is also being used to meet peaking requirements.
This leads to non-optimal utilisation of economic and perishable resources.
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Only about 17%
of vast hydel potential of 1,50,000 MW has been tapped so far. Countries
like Norway, Canada, Brazil have all been utilising more than 30%
of their hydro potential wherease India and China have lagged far
behind as can be seen in the table below. |
Therefore, exploiting
the vast hydro potential has been provided extra thrust in the capacity
addition plans and has been accorded high priority in our power
development plans. In order to improve the themal-hydro mix following
measures have been undertaken: |
Country
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Exploitable
Potential(MW) |
Installed
Utillised (MW) |
%of
Potential Capacity |
Norway |
47,000 |
27,360 |
58 |
Canada |
160,000 |
65,678 |
41 |
Brazil |
170,00 |
52,427 |
31 |
China |
310,000 |
56,000 |
18 |
India |
150,000 |
23,488 |
17
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