AP power utility to add 8,753 MW by 2012
Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation Ltd (APGenco) plans to add 8,753 MW to the state grid by the end of eleven Five-Year plan (2007-12) with an estimated cost of Rs 35,010 crore.
By PTI |
HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation Ltd (APGenco) plans to add 8,753 MW to the state grid by the end of eleven Five-Year plan (2007-12) with an estimated cost of Rs 35,010 crore.
"With the present production capacity of 6,761 MW, AP Genco will emerge as a 15,514 MW company, thanks to the measures taken up by our government," State Minister for Energy and Mines Mohammad Ali Shabbir said on Tuesday.
He was briefing reporters here on the three years' performance of his ministry after Y S Rajshekhar Reddy-led Congress government came to power in 2004.
After producing 31,402 million units during 2006-07 - highest power ever produced since APGenco's inception - he said the generation cost has reduced nearly to 143 paise per unit now from 182 paise per unit during the TDP regime. "APGenco was incurring losses of Rs 453 crore during TDP rule, but we kept its head above water and now it has clocked profits of Rs 145 crore," the minister claimed.
Referring to future investments for transmission and distribution, Shabbir said the state government is to invest Rs 34,099 crore by 2012.
"It is proposed to invest Rs 4,498 crore to commission 80 EHT sub-stations and 5521 CKM of transmission lines in the Eleventh Plan. An amount of Rs 6,074 crore is also planned to invest on expansion of distribution system."
Achieving 11 per cent increase in coal dispatches for the last three years, Singareni Coal Collaries Ltd is aiming to attain 42 million tonnes of production by 2012 from the existing output of 37.4 MT, he added.
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