THE MINISTER OF POWER (SHRI SUSHILKUMAR SHINDE )
(a) to (e) : A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.
STATEMENT
STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (e) OF
STARRED QUESTION NO. 259 TO BE ANSWERED IN THE LOK
SABHA ON 08.03.2005 REGARDING SHARE OF HYDRO-POWER IN
POWER GENERATION.
(a) & (b): Yes, Sir. At the start of the Tenth Plan, Government had estimated the
capacity of total power and the share of hydro power that would be available by the end
of Tenth Five Year Plan. The estimated capacity and the capacity now anticipated to be
achieved by the end of the Tenth Five Year Plan is given below:
At the end of Tenth Total Total hydro Share of hydro Plan installed installed power as % of capacity in capacity in total installed MW MW capacity
Estimated capacity 1,44,520 40,654 28.13%
Now anticipated 1,37,434 36,435 26.51%
A total capacity addition of 41,110 MW was estimated during the Tenth
Plan out of which the share of hydro power capacity addition was 14,393 MW. However,
the anticipated hydro capacity addition during Tenth Plan would be 10,174 MW.
(c) : No, Sir.
(d) & (e) : The Government is contemplating to increase the share of hydro power in
the total installed power generation capacity during the Tenth Five Year Plan from 25.4% at the end of the Ninth Plan to 26.5% at the end of the Tenth Plan.
