Pakistan plan to import 4,000 MW electricity from India stalled

[Hindustani78]

Pak plan to import 4,000 MW electricity from India stalled

Islamabad, Oct 21, 2015 (PTI)

Energy-starved Pakistan's plan to import up to 4,000 megawatts of electricity from India has been stalled amid rising anti-Pakistan and extremist sentiments in India, a media report said.

"How can we push for electricity import [from India] when those at the helm of affairs in India are taking an extremely anti-Pakistan posture," a senior official from the Ministry of Water and Power told Dawn newspaper.

The Narendra Modi administration is not only taking a hawkish stance against Pakistan, but is also refusing to come to the negotiating table and is encouraging extremist groups to attack Pakistani visitors, including singers, writers and sportsmen, he said.

Water and Power Minister Khawaja Asif told the Senate last week that Pakistani and Indian officials had discussed plans for importing 500 MW from India in April 2012.

Two years after these discussions, officials from Adani Enterprises Ltd of India visited Pakistan in April 2014 to discuss matters related to the import.

In the written statement, the minister detailed how AEL had submitted a draft to the ministry, proposing the export of 500-800MWs in two-three years as a starting point, recommending an eventual scale-up to 3500-4000MWs.

"But no further progress was made in this regard," Asif said.

Pakistan is facing shortfall in in electricity and planning to also import electricity from Iran and the Central Asia.

It is believed that import from India would be cheaper and fast due to short distance and similar infrastructures on both sides of the border.

 

[ThaniOruvan]

It is not that Pakistan refused to import. Truth is India refused to export.

 

[jung41]

India has no surplus power then how can it export. Media has nothing to do just making stupid news.

 

[ThaniOruvan]

India has no surplus power then how can it export. Media has nothing to do just making stupid news.

If it had been the daughter-selling congressis they would have exported power even in case of deficiency just to flag successful diplomacy with Pakistan.

 

[Hindustani78]

India has no surplus power then how can it export. Media has nothing to do just making stupid news.

India will be power surplus in 2019, and we are taking all necessary steps. From the current one trillion units of energy generation, we can double the power generation and become power surplus,” Union Minister for Power, Coal and Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal told a group of industry executives here.

Towards achieving the objectives, Mr. Goyal is looking at $250-billion investment in coal, power and renewable energy sectors in the coming years.

In the past two years, the country added about 40,000 MW of generation capacity, while the demand increased by about 10,000 MW only.

 

[jung41]

If it had been the daughter-selling congressis they would have exported power even in case of deficiency just to flag successful diplomacy with Pakistan.

True very true to patronize their vote bank they can do any thing.

 

[Hindustani78]

India already exports 500MW of power to Bangladesh. The additional gas-fired 500MW will be provided after the completion of the SAARC grid.

Bhutan is the bigger exporter of electricity to India. Bhutan has furnished the list of new
75 HEPs (basin-wise) for 2030 scenario with total installed capacity of 25054 MW. Out
of this potential, capacity addition program for 2020 time frame is revised to 10334 MW
from 14 HEPs. With an existing installed capacity of 1480 MW, total hydro capacity by
the end of 2020 and 2030 will be 11814 Mw and 26534 MW respectively.

India will continue to supply Pakistan and Bangladesh. India will export 2GW by
2022 and will reach 4GW by 2047.

 

[tsinga]

India has no surplus power then how can it export. Media has nothing to do just making stupid news.

2019 is targeted as the year when there would be full time power to those areas that have electricity connections.
I believe that 2022 is the year when every Indian village will also have full time power.

 

[Hindustani78]

India to give 100 MW more power to Bangladesh - The Hindu

Updated: October 31, 2015 07:48 IST

India will start transmission of fresh 100 MW electricity from Tripura to Bangladesh by January and the government-owned company is working round-the-clock to erect the transmission line by December, an official said.

The decision was taken following a three-day (October 26-28) meet in New Delhi of the Indian and Bangladesh officials, Tripura State Electricity Corporation Limiited (TSECL) Deputy General Managar Mahananda Debbarma said.

“The Indian Government-owned Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL) working round-the-clock to erect the 47 km transmission line from western Tripura to southern Comilla (in eastern Bangladesh) by December this year.

“The PGCIL initially would invest Rs.250 crore to set up the 400 kv (kilovolt) double circuit transmission line and subsequently the Bangladesh government would reimburse the cost,” the official added.

Mr. Debbarma, who attended the meet, said though power tariff was not yet decided but was discussed. However, it would be decided soon.

India’s power ministry’s director (Transmission) Ghanshyam Prasad led the Indian delegation while senior officials of Bangladesh power ministry and Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) were present in the meeting.

“Of the 47 km transmission line, 18 km line would be raised in the Indian (Tripura) territory and remaining in the Bangladesh portion. Altogether 143 transmission towers (67 in India and 76 in Bangladesh) would be set up,” the official added. Electricity-starved Bangladesh will begin receiving 100 MW of power from Tripura to meet the energy crisis in the eastern part of the country.

The 100 MW power will be in addition to the 500 MW Bangladesh already receives from the West Bengal and a like amount that is on the cards from the State, as the two neighbours enter a new phase of bilateral cooperation for regional benefit.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed the power supply from Tripura with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina during Dhaka-visit last June.

He had declared that India would enhance the supply of power to Bangladesh from the existing 500 MW to 1,100 MW.

Tripura Power Minister Manik Dey after holding meetings with PGCIL engineers and officials said: “I have asked the PGCIL authorities to expedite the works to fulfil our commitment given to Bangladesh about supplying 100 MW of power.”

“While erecting new power transmission lines from (western Tripura’s) Surjyamaninagar power grid to Comilla power grid (in eastern Bangladesh) to supply the electricity, human habitations, forests and other vital installations would be avoided,” Dey added.

M.K.Chowdhury, the TSECL’s director (Technical), said the Indian government has submitted a proposal to send power from the north-east region to others parts of India via Bangladesh. “No formal decision has been taken so far in this regard,” he added.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar had earlier said that after completion of a new 101 MW gas-based power projects at Monarchak (10 km from the Bangladesh border) in western Tripura, at least 200 MW of power would be surplus in Tripura. The Central government-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has commissioned its biggest ever 726 MW commercial power project at Palatana, 60 km from Agartala, while the State-run North East Electric Power Corporation is setting up a 101 MW project at Monarchak in western Tripura, 70 km from Agartala.

The gas-based Palatana project, which supplies power in seven of the eight north-eastern States, is a hallmark of the cooperation between India and Bangladesh, which ensured the smooth passage of heavy project equipment and turbines to Palatana through its territory by road and waterways from Haldia port in West Bengal.

India had begun supplying 500 MW of power to Bangladesh in 2013 after the government-run Bangladesh Power Development Board and India’s NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Ltd (NVVN), a subsidiary of NTPC, signed a deal Feb 28, 2012, following an agreement signed during Hasina’s visit to New Delhi in January 2010. – IANS

Government agency working round-the-clock to erect the transmission line by December