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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Top 5 States in India with highest installed electricity generation capacity

The detailed breakup of the total installed capacity is given below;

Capacity in MW (As on Sep 2013);
Type
Maharashtra
Gujarat
Tamil Nadu
Andhra Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Coal
19,939
15,738
8,476
8,573
10,523
Gas
3,476
4,979
1,026
3,370
550
Diesel
-
17
412
37
-
Total Thermal
23,415
20,735
9,914
11,981
11,073
Nuclear
690
559
524
276
336
Hydro
3,332
790
2,182
3,735
1,847
RES*
4,497
4,042
7,491
1,184
824
Grand Total
31,934
26,126
20,112
17,175
14,079


Sector wise breakup is given below (Capacity in MW);
Sectors
Maharashtra
Gujarat
Tamil Nadu
Andhra Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
State
12,269
6,887
7,594
9,050
5,472
Private
13,038
15,590
8,687
4,968
3,649
Central
6,627
3,650
3,830
3,157
4,958
Total
31,934
26,126
20,112
17,175
14,079

The state of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu are highly industrialized. Therefore, their electricity demand is also higher than other states.

If we compare total installed electricity generation capacity with the population of respective states, then following results are arrived at
Per capita installed electricity generation capacity of states in India  



India is the world’s fifth largest electricity generator with total installed capacity of 2,28,722 MW.

 Out of this -
  • 90,062 MW is from state owned utilities
  • 72,927 MW is from privately owned utilities and 
  • 65,733 MW is from central owned utilities

India derives most of its electricity from fossil fuels; primarily from coal (India has 20,381 MW of capacity on coal which is 59% of total capacity)

 India also derives considerable amount of electricity from hydro power sources.

Currently India has total of -
  • 1,55,969 MW of installed capacity on thermal
  •  39,788 MW of installed capacity on hydro
  •  28,184 MW of installed capacity on Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and 
  •  4,780 MW of installed capacity on nuclear.

 Thermal sources contribute 68% in the total capacity

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