NEW DELHI (PTI): The World Bank has called for improved coordination in power systems operations in India when a model experiment of the operations of the major regional power systems showed that unfulfilled demands could be substantially cut down.
In a new study of the long-term issues of the power sector, the World Bank pointed out that much of the savings would have been derived from additional interregional trading of electricity.
It said simulations of the operations of the northern, western and southern regional power systems showed that demands left UN served could have been reduced by roughly 50% through improved coordination in systems operations.
This projection, the Bank said, assumes the development of ‘loose’ power pools each of the regional grids which emerges from the study as a natural course of development for the regional power systems.
While measures such as the introduction of two-part tariffs for central generation would be very important to facilitate the savings, relaxation of states’ fixed shares of central generation in favor of these supplies being traded in regional power pools would also provide considerable benefits, it said.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 26, 1993
