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India facing 11 pc power peak demand shortage
A COUNTRY?S economic development was linked to its consumption of energy. In approximately half-a-century, India?s installed generation capacity and electricity generation had increased to 66 times and 114 times respectively but Indians were still facing 11 per cent peak demand shortage and seven per cent overall energy shortages at the moment.
A COUNTRY’S economic development was linked to its consumption of energy. In approximately half-a-century, India’s installed generation capacity and electricity generation had increased to 66 times and 114 times respectively but Indians were still facing 11 per cent peak demand shortage and seven per cent overall energy shortages at the moment.
Vice-president of Reliance Energy Limited VK Ghate said there on Saturday while delivering a keynote address at a seminar on ‘Energy conservation’ organised by Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) at its PTP Hall. The seminar was held in association with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Union Ministry of Power.
Expressing concern over the lack of energy saving measures, Ghate said it was a paradoxical situation that on one side there was a power shortage whilst, on the other hand, there was energy saving potential of 23 per cent in various sectors of the economy without foregoing any end use. He said this could be achieved through energy conservation measures.
Earlier, the seminar was inaugurated by Director of MNNIT Prof AB Samaddar, who emphasised over the development of new technologies capable of reducing energy consumption.
Group president, RIL Thomas Mathew, said energy conservation and management were a technical and management function. Their remedy was to monitor, record, analyse, critically examine, alter and control energy flows through systems so that energy was utilised with maximum efficiency.
“The energy manager must also be responsible for the day-to-day management of fuel and deliveries, boiler houses, distribution systems, building services, plant, process equipment, polluting exhausts, effluents and waste. Great strides in the field of energy conservation and management have been made over the last one-decade,” he added.
Quoting the Rig Ved, speakers like Dr Anuj Jain and Dr Ravi Prakash of the Department of Applied Mechanics, MNNIT also stressed the energy conservation and talked about the Energy Conservation Act -2001.
