Meeting with Shri Raghubar Das Ji Hon’ble Chief Minister of Jharkhand issue regarding Damodar Valley Corporation
Meeting with Mr Adewale Adeyemo, US Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economy
Meeting with Lt. Governor of Puducherry Ms. Kiran Bedi, discussed power sector issues of Puducherry
NEW DELHI: Coal stock of 31 million tonne is available at government-monitored power plants, power, coal, renewable energy and mines minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday.
He said the stock position on July 19 was 31.3 million tonne, sufficient to operate the power plants for 23 days as against the normative stock requirement of 21 days.
At the end of April, the coal stock at power plants was 34.94 million tonne as against 29.76 million tonne at the end of April 2015.
As on March 31, the coal stock was 38.87 million tonne, which is the highest in the last four years, he said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.
NEW DELHI: Overall power deficit during the April-June quarter this fiscal was 0.9 per cent while the peak deficit was 2 per cent, Parliament was informed today.
“As per information given by states/UTs to the Central Electricity Authority, the gap between demand and supply of electricity has been brought down to the lowest ever 2.1 per cent during 2015-16 which has further reduced to 0.9 per cent during 2016-17 (April-June, 2016),” Power Minister Piyush Goyal said in a written reply to the RajyaSabha today
According to a statement, against the overall demand of 295.34 billion units in April-June, 292.82 billion units were supplied, a deficit of 0.9 per cent.
Similarly, 149.97 billion units were supplied against the peak demand of 152.97 billion units, recording a deficit of 2 per cent in the period under review.
The minister said, “As against capacity addition target of 1,18,537 mw (including 88,537 mw conventional and 30,000 mw renewable) during the 12th Plan, i.e. by 2016-17, about 86,565 mw from conventional sources and about 19,500 mw from renewable sources have been achieved till June 30, 2016.”
“Construction (target) of 1,07,440 ckm transmission lines and setting up of 2,82,740 mega volt amp (MVA) transformation capacity during the 12th Plan. As against this, 89,813 ckm of transmission lines and 2,66,033 MVA of transformation capacity have been achieved till June 30, 2016.”
As per the statement, the highest overall power deficit was recorded at 18.2 per cent in Jammu & Kashmir, where 3.6 billion units of electricity was supplied in April-June as against the demand of 4.4 billion units.
Jammu & Kashmir has also recorded the highest peak power deficit of 15.2 per cent in April-June quarter as 2.1 billion units were supplied against the demand of 2.4 billion units.
It is the only state which has recorded overall and peak power deficit percentage in double digits.
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The government said on Monday coal and power ministries are not at loggerheads over seven coal blocks identified for allotment to power plants through tariff-based bidding. “There is no dispute between Ministries of Coal and Power with regard to allocation of 7 coal mines identified for allotment to power projects to be awarded on tariff-based bidding,” Coal and Power Minister Piyush Goyal said in a reply to the RajyaSabha.
These seven explored coal blocks in Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand are part of 204 coal mines cancelled by the Supreme Court and are included in Schedule I of the Coal Mines (Special Provisions) Act, 2015, the minister said. The power ministry, he said, has been requested to intimate suitability of these seven coal mines for power projects being planned to be awarded on tariff-based bidding.
Out of these seven, one coal mine Tubed, which is located in Jharkhand, has been alloted to the Damodar Valley Corporation on the recommendation of the power ministry, the minister said. “Environment and forest clearances are to be obtained by the allocatee company themselves,” he said, adding that there is no proposal at present to withdraw these coal mines.
The authority for allotment of coal blocks rests with the coal ministry.
Source Link: http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-ministry-of-coal-and-power-are-not-at-loggergeads-piyush-goyal-2238009
Centre plans to enhance the power transmission capacity in the country by almost three times by 2020, Union Minister PiyushGoyal said today, adding that South India has achieved power surplus status due to various initiatives.
“We have brought solar revolution in a big way to India. In the last two years, there was highest ever renewable energy capacity expansion in wind and solar. In fact, solar energy capacity, which was 2,400 MW in 2014, has now crossed 7,000 MW,” the Coal, Power and Renewable Energy Minister told reporters here.
Stating that gas-based power plants which were lying idle for lack of fuel have now started operations, he said most of these plants are in South India.
The minister said as much as 71 percent of transmission capacity from the Northern and Eastern grids have been connected to South India.
“All these steps put together have led to South India becoming power surplus. They have the ability to provide power 24/7 throughout South India,” he said.
“With all the thrust we are giving to renewable power, we are focusing to further increase the transmission capacity to make it nearly three times more than what it is today, by 2020,” he added.
Referring to the purchase of power between states, he said, “Two years ago when a state like Tamil Nadu had to buy power, it was around Rs 8, Rs 10, Rs 12 or even Rs 14 a unit, particularly in summer months.” “I am delighted to share with you now that on most days, power is available at the same price in North India as in South India…,” he said without elaborating.
“In earlier days, South India had to buy power at five times the cost of Northern India. Now, we have almost got it on par,” he said.
Visited NTPC’s Badarpur power plant
Power Ministry is not pitching for keeping renewable energy equipment out of the purview of proposed GST but wants a level-playing field for domestic manufactures, Union Minister PiyushGoyal said.
“Ideally we should put GST (rate) on imports so that it becomes a level-playing field and domestic manufacturing are not at disadvantage. Today there is an inverted (duty) structure. Domestic (manufacturers) are paying more taxes than imports,” Goyal, the Power and New and Renewable Energy Minister, said.
He was replying to a query whether the Power Ministry has proposed to keep renewable energy equipment out of the GST regime. The proposed Goods and Services Tax law, which seeks to subsumes all central and state levies including excise, service tax and sales tax, is stuck in the RajyaSabha.
Speaking on the idea of keeping the renewables out of GST, Goyal said, “Some manufacturing people did talk to me. I do’t think we should keep it out of GST. My approach is different.
We have to create a level-playing field. So, GST (rate) should be on imports (of renewable).” Asked whether his ministry has made any proposal over the same, he said, “To the best of my remembrance, I do’t think I would have asked for something like that. I believe that we should keep minimum distortion in the GST regime.” Pitching for passage of the GST bill, the minister suggested that there is a need to build a pressure so that the GST is cleared in this Monsoon session of Parliament beginning on July 18, 2016.
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