सर यदि आप देखेंगे तो पाएंगे कि पॉवर सेक्टर अपने आप में घाटे का सौदा है । जब भी ग्रिड में एक -एक उपलब्ध करवाया जाता है , तो उसमे प्रति यूनिट घाटा होता है । जितना जनरेशन कीजियेगा उतना ही घाटा बढ़ेगा । Unless and until you reduce theft in distribution, you will not be able to make power sector economically viable. A lot of efforts have been made to control theft in power sector at distribution point. But, unfortunately, it has not succeeded. We have to use technology to reduce the theft. The technology is available now like the prepaid chips that you have in the telecom sector, we should have prepaid electronic meter chips at the distribution points, particularly amongst the consumers in the industrial sector and other sectors. The second point I want make is that in our urge to electrify the largest number of villages, we are transmitting electricity at a very low voltage. The lower the voltage, the higher the transmission losses. In most of the developed countries, the transmission is never.below {KVA. But, in most of our rural sectors in India, we are transmitting power at 11 KVA resulting in much higher transmission losses. The Power Ministry must try to convert all these low transmission lines into higher transmission lines and have at each consumer level distribution point a step-down transformer so that the transmission losses are controlled and the distribution losses also be controlled. On the energy audit at the distribution point, you should fix responsibility of the person who is in -charge of the distribution point. Most of the distribution companies are r~nning in losses, or are not being able to pay back the generating companies. Most of the State Electricity Boards owe huge sums to the generating companies. Most of the generating companies are becoming NPAs. Therefore, one of the major challenges in this country is to make the whole power sector economically viable. Until and unless you make this power sector economically viable, we shall always be power deficit. Sir, I think, there are a number of old plants which are running at very low plant load factors. Modernisation of these plants will not need much of an investment and, therefore, they can be taken up at the State-level and at the NTPC-Ievel also. The usual age of a power plant is about 35-40 years. Therefore, modernisation schemes should be taken up by the NTPC and the State Electricity Boards on a priority basis. Sir, I think, availability of coal is a major problem. Unfortunately, most of our coal blocks which were allocated as per the Government policy of the NDA and the UPA landed themselves into the investigation by the CBI. Most of these coal blocks have to be unshackled; unshackled from the CBI, and unshackled from the Ministry of Environment and Forests. Until and unless you unshackle our coal resources, you will be importing high priced coal from outside raising the generating cost. Gas is an important fuel for our power •sector. Unfortunately, a number of power plants came up with gas as a source for generation. But, then, the availability of gas is not there and thousands of crores of investment money has gone waste because of that. Sir, I have always been a great votary of renewable sources of energy. I think the time has come, because of higher technology, every day, the solar energy prices are coming down. We should be looking at hybrid grids which can bring the wind energy, solar energy with our conventional energy so that through hybrid grids, we could economize our power generation. I have always felt, Sir, that one of the major energy resources, the biogas, somehow, has not been used to its full advantage. In the rural areas, if some amount of the subsidy that we are giving to the petroleum sector is channelized through the biogas in the rural sector, it can be one of the most decentralized forms of energy usage in the country. Every unit saved is energy generated. It should be made mandatory for these poople the builders to use innovative energy-saving devices in all the new buildinqs , CFL and LED bulbs now also throw up a great opportunity for energy saving. In most of the urban areas, Sir, the urban local bodies must look into this that all the street-lights should either be lit by using the CFL bulbs or be solar-powered. Sir, the other thing which I wanted to say, Sir, was that ultimately power is absolutely essential for any countrys development. This is an opportunity for the hon. Minister. I think, for the first time, in this country that the Power Minister also has the Coal Ministry. The end - user and the resource Minister is the same. This charge may have been given by the hon. Prime Minister for other reasons also, but 0 the fact remains that here is great opportunity before the Power Minister, being the end -user he also has in his authority the natural resource. Therefore, I say, Sir, this is a great opportunity for the hon. Minister to look into all the issues which my hon.. Member of Parliament, Dr. T. Subbarami Reddy, has raised, and, I strongly support his Resolution. Thank you, Sir. youtu.be/EhBT65Q8MQA?list=UUD6DFb1gvMoWXhqdczUp3ag
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 04:45:46 +0000
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