Development Report- Energy Sector
Capacity
The total installed capacity of power generation in India by the end of 2012 under the UPA regime was around 202.98 GW.
As of 31 May 2021 the Modi Government the national electric grid in India has taken the installed capacity to 383.37 GW with an outstanding growth of more than 10% every year. India is the world’s third largest producer and third largest consumer of electricity.
Electricity Distribution to Citizens
Electricity to Villages-
– Village Electrification– In 2014 when Modi Government took office data showed that out of India’s 597,464 census villages there were some 18,452 villages without electricity. As of 28 April 2018, 12 days ahead of the target date, all Indian 597,464 census villages were electrified. The government considers a village electrified if it has basic electrical infrastructure and 10 percent of its households and public places including schools, local administrative offices and health centers have power. This is because some villagers do not wish to have power.
–DDUGJY- Modi Government’s Ministry of Power launched Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) as one of its flagship programmes in July 2015 with the objective of providing round the clock power to rural areas. The programme focused on reforms in the rural power sector by separating feeder lines for rural households from those for agricultural applications, and strengthening transmission and distribution infrastructure.
Electricity to Individual House Holds-
Saubhagya- Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana–It was launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister on 25th September 2017. A previous scheme for rural electrification, Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) was subsumed into this new scheme. Under Saubhagya Yojana free electricity connections to all households (both APL and poor families) in rural areas and poor families in urban areas was to be provided. There were around 2.6284 Crore un-electrified households in the country at that time, out of which 2.6265 crore house were electrified up to March 2019. Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) has been designated as its nodal agency for the Saubhagya scheme. Under Modi’s leadership India has achieved nearly 100% electrification of all rural and urban households.
Generation of Clean Energy
India’s power sector is one of the most diversified in the world. Sources of power generation range from conventional sources such as coal, lignite, natural gas, oil, hydro and nuclear power to viable non-conventional sources such as wind, solar, and agricultural and domestic waste. Prime Minister Modi highlighted that India’s energy plan aims to ensure energy justice while adhering to global commitments to sustainable growth and he made continuous efforts to increase share of Green and Renewable energy production in India. India is world’s 3rd largest consumer of electricity and world’s 4th largest renewable energy producer. The renewable energy capacity in India is currently 136 gigawatts (GW). This is about 36 per cent of our total capacity. By 2022, the share of renewable capacity will increase to over 220 GW. ( Source- https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com). India signed Paris Agreement in 2015. Since then India is exceeding its commitments to the Paris Agreement. Prime