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December power capacity addition up 84.05% m-o-m

January 20: India’s power capacity addition in December 2014 stood at 668.67 MW, up 84.05% against 363.3 MW recorded during the previous month, according to provisional data made available by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA).

With this, the total installed generation capacity of the country stood at 255,681.46 MW as on December 31, 2014 while the same was at 255,012.79 MW during the last day of the previous month, revealed the data.

During December 2014, the capacity-addition target was 1,460 MW for the thermal sector while the achievement fell short of the target and stood at 600 MW. However, for the hydro sector, target stood at 25 MW while achievement stood at 68.67 MW while for nuclear sector, both target and achievement stood at nil, as per the CEA data.

Meanwhile, in November 2014, the capacity-addition target was 275 MW for the thermal sector while the achievement exceeded the target and stood at 363.3 MW. However, for the hydro and nuclear sectors, target and achievement both stood at nil.

India added a total of 10,610.41 MW of power generation capacity during the first nine months (April-December) of 2014-15, registering a growth of about 22% over 8,728 MW added during the corresponding period of the previous financial year, as per data.

Following is the monthly break-up of power capacity addition in various sectors during 2014-15:

In December 2014, in the thermal sector, 600 MW was added at Mutiara , TPP , Unit-I  by Coastal Energen while in the hydro sector, 68.67 MW was added at Rampur, HEP, Unit-VI by SJVNL.

However, during November 2014, the entire capacity was added at Palatana, CCPP, (JV of ILFS, ONGC & Tripura government) in Tripura, commissioned by BHEL.

Following is the break-up of monthly capacity addition during FY’15, FY’14, FY’13 and FY’12 (in MW):

# Figures may not tally due to revision of data by CEA.