Transmission and Distribution Losses

There is a huge improvement in the T&D losses in the country since 2006, where the average country T&D losses were 32% due to technical losses, due to energy dissipated in the conductors, transformers, and other equipment used for transmission, transformation, sub-transmission, and distribution of power to out of dated transmission line. The losses were also due to pilferage by hooking, bypassing meters, defective meters, errors in meter reading, and in estimating an un-metered supply of energy are the main sources of the commercial losses. There is another component of commercial losses, which is attributable to the non-recovery of the billed amount, which is reflected in collection efficiency.

AVERAGE T&D LOSSES OVER THE YEARS ACROSS THE COUNTRY

PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION (kWh)

Source: MNRE, Niti Ayog Dashboard EQ iSearch

ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTIONS IN INDIA

Electricity consumptions per capita in India have increased significantly by 32% from 914 kWh in 2012-13 to 1,208 kWh in 2019-20. There is a year-over-year growth of 2.3% in electricity consumption from 2018-2019 to 2019-20. If we talk about the electricity per capita consumption in China by 2020 it was somewhere around 5,312 kWh, while the United States has more than 12,000 kWh.

As per the CEA monthly report, the installed power capacity from all sources in India has increase from 333.5 GW by end of 2017 to 349.3 GW by 2018 to 375.32 GW by 2020. So, since 2017 the installed power capacity has increased by 12.5% till 2020, but if you talk about the per capita consumption growth from 2017-18 to 2019-20, there is a growth of just ~5%, the result for this imbalance growth between the installed power capacity to consumption, as India move towards the climate change which forcing the country to go for the non-conventional source of energy especially solar and wind power and due to low capacity utilization factor (CUF) comparing with the non-conventional source of energy such as Coal.

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