The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) on May 31, 2023, issued a Press Release regarding the National Electricity Plan for the period of 2022-32
The following has been stated namely: -
• It states that the National Electricity Plan document includes the review of the last five years (2017-22), a detailed plan for the next five years (2022-27), and the prospective plan for the next five years (2027-32).
• The NEP document contains the projected All India peak electricity demand and electrical energy requirement is 277.2 GW and 1907.8 BU for the year 2026-27 and 366.4 GW and 2473.8 BU for the year 2031-32 as per the 20th Electric Power Survey Demand projections.
• The Energy Requirement & Peak Demand is inclusive of the impact due to the increased adoption of Electric Vehicles, Installation of Solar rooftops, Production of Green hydrogen, Saubhagya scheme, etc.
• The projection of total capacity addition is in line with the target of the country to achieve a non-fossil-based installed capacity of around 500 GW by the year 2029-30.
• NEP envisages that the share of non-fossil-based capacity is likely to increase to 57.4% by the end of 2026-27 and may likely to further increase to 68.4% by the end of 2031-32 from around 42.5% as on April’2023.
• The average PLF of the total Installed coal capacity of 235.1 GW is likely to be about 58.4% in 2026-27and that of 259.6 GW of coal-based capacity is likely to be about 58.7 % in 2031-32.
• It states that the domestic coal requirement has been estimated to be 866.4 Million Tonnes for the year 2026-27 and 1025.8 Million Tonnes for the year 2031-32 and an estimated requirement of 28.9 MT of coal imports for the plants designed to run on imported coal.
• The average emission factor is expected to reduce to 0.548 kg CO2/kWh in the year 2026-27 and to 0.430 kg CO2/kWh by the end of 2031-32.
[Press Release ID: 1928750]
