Prabhakar Rao, Chairperson/SRPC & CMD/TSGENCO & TSTRANSCO presided over the 44th Southern Region Power Committee meeting today at Cochin, Kerala and stated that Southern Region has met peak demand of 60,876 GW on 01.04.2022 (as compared to all India Peak Demand of 2,12,000 MW).
Since peak demand of Southern Region during the ensuing summer and rabi season is expected to be around 65 GW, Chairperson/SRPC has advised all southern region states to plan well in advance duly considering the previous year constraints faced by entire nation during the same period due to various reasons such as acute coal shortage, sudden outages and non availability of power in exchange.
While conventional generation projects with long gestation periods provide 3 year time for building the transmission network, renewable projects with shorter gestation period of 18 months requires the transmission system to be constructed within 18 months only. Hence leveraging the advanced technologies in implementation of global best practices of project management play a significant role in ensuring timely execution of transmission schemes.
In view of large scale development of Renewable Energy, the additional transmission network has to be planned very meticulously with utmost coordination among Central Transmission Utility (CTU), Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) and all States for achieving the ultimate objective of optimum interstate transmission network.
In view of urgent necessity to move towards automation of Load Generation Balance using Ancillary Services, Smart Grids, Tightening of Frequency Band and Integration of Battery Storage Systems to Live Grid, Foolproof Communication Systems in power sector is highly essential, Chairperson said.
