4,500 MW capacity addition in 5 years

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HYDERABAD: The state government has adopted a two pronged strategy to strengthen APGenco by adding an additional power generation ..

HYDERABAD: The state government has adopted a two pronged strategy to strengthen APGenco by adding an additional power generation capacity of 4,500 MW in the next five years. As part of the strategy, all the thermal plants will maintain optimum level of coal stocks to ensure uninterrupted generation of power.
The government is also making sustained efforts to procure maximum quantity of power to meet the ever growing demand for it. At present, the installed capacity of power plants in the state is 15,768 MW compared to 14,750 MW last year. Already, chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy had written a letter to Union Ministry of Power to expedite the matter with the Empowered Group Of Ministers (EGOM) and the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas to meet the deficit of gas for the existing gasbased projects in the state and the new plants coming up in Karimnagar and Shankarapalli.

While emphasising the need to expedite the construction and commissioning of new power projects to meet the ever growing demand for electricity, which is increasing at the rate of 12 to 13 per cent per annum, the state government has directed APGenco to submit a comprehensive report on the status of ongoing power projects. According to the Department of Energy, the demand for power increased to a record 265 MU in March 2011 registering a 30.1 per cent rise during the last five years.

It has also laid emphasis on maintaining adequate coal stocks to run thermal power projects at 95 to 100 per cent Plant Load Factor.

The Electro Static Precipitator (ESP) erection works of the project already begun in May.