Tuesday

India's Power Plants

How do you imagine the future? How the world would look like in 10 or even 50 years? Of course this is hard or even impossible to say.
India Power Plant
However we can predict some things to happen considering the past and the directions of the worlds development.
I'm talking about things like electric cars (which we can already see on our roads) or new ways of power producing, like solar collectors and etc. I think that we will all agree on that electricity will become even more important about us and our lives in the future. But how all this electricity will be produced? Let's see the India's solution to this major problem.

India is the sixth largest consumer of electricity in the world. Seventeen per cent of the population on the planet is living in India and they will become more in the future. All these people will need electricity for cooking, for lighting, for warming and other things. That is why India has a major plan for increasing the electricity production in the next several years.

Today India is producing over 111 million MW of power by using thermal power stations. This is 70% of all the produced power in the country. One of the biggest power stations are Anpara Power Plant, Bakreswar Thermal Power Station, Panipat Thermal Power Station and etc.

Hydro electric power plant – India was one of the first to create such a plants in Asia. Today these power stations are producing over 37 000 MW.

Nuclear power stations – they may be the solution for the India's growing needs of electricity. Today they are producing only a bit more than 4000 MW of power.

India is also looking forward to develop new ways of power producing. The government is investing in solar power and wind power stations.

Other big problem in India are the power losses during the transmission of the electricity. Today more than 30 % of the produced electricity is not used because of losses.

India is demanding to develop it's electricity sector very much. New power plants will be build and the transmission will become more efficient, so in some years to come we can expect a serious progress for this country.