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    India's power sector is increasingly relying on renewable sources like solar and wind. However, the rapid growth of renewable energy is reducing the plant load factor of thermal power plants and adding costs. As renewable energy has priority grid access, more thermal plants are becoming unused while still requiring debt payments. This is exacerbating financial stress across the sector. Solutions proposed include limiting renewable additions to replace retiring thermal plants, incorporating storage systems, and ensuring states determine their own renewable targets.

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    Renewables in India's Power Sector

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    India's power sector is increasingly relying on renewable sources like solar and wind. However, the rapid growth of renewable energy is reducing the plant load factor of thermal power plants and adding costs. As renewable energy has priority grid access, more thermal plants are becoming unused while still requiring debt payments. This is exacerbating financial stress across the sector. Solutions proposed include limiting renewable additions to replace retiring thermal plants, incorporating storage systems, and ensuring states determine their own renewable targets.

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    India's power sector is increasingly relying on renewable sources like solar and wind. However, the rapid growth of renewable energy is reducing the plant load factor of thermal power plants and adding costs. As renewable energy has priority grid access, more thermal plants are becoming unused while still requiring debt payments. This is exacerbating financial stress across the sector. Solutions proposed include limiting renewable additions to replace retiring thermal plants, incorporating storage systems, and ensuring states determine their own renewable targets.

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    Renewables in India's Power Sector

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    India's power sector is increasingly relying on renewable sources like solar and wind. However, the rapid growth of renewable energy is reducing the plant load factor of thermal power plants and adding costs. As renewable energy has priority grid access, more thermal plants are becoming unused while still requiring debt payments. This is exacerbating financial stress across the sector. Solutions proposed include limiting renewable additions to replace retiring thermal plants, incorporating storage systems, and ensuring states determine their own renewable targets.

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    Renewables in India’s Power

    Sector
    A time to review the RPO trajectory
    Total Installed Capacity
    Fuel MW % of Total
    Total Thermal 2,30,600 62.80%
    Coal 1,98,525 54.20%
    Lignite 6,610 1.7%

    Gas 24,937 6.90%


    Diesel 510 0.10%
    Hydro (Renewable) 45,699 12.40%
    Nuclear 6,780 1.90%
    RES* (MNRE) 87,028 23.50%
    Total 3,70,106
    Energy generation from Conventional
    Sources
    Energy Generation from

    Year Conventional Sources % of growth

    (BU)

    2009-10 771.551 6.6

    2010-11 811.143 5.56

    2011-12 876.887 8.11

    2012-13 912.056 4.01

    2013-14 967.15 6.04

    2014-15 1048.673 8.43

    2015-16 1107.822 5.64

    2016-17 1160.141 4.72

    2017-18 1206.306 3.98

    2018-19 1249.337 3.57

    2019-20* 1252.611 0.26


    PLF of Thermal Plants
    PLF Sector-wise PLF (%)
    Year
    % Central State Private

    2009-10 77.5 85.5 70.9 83.9

    2010-11 75.1 85.1 66.7 80.7

    2011-12 73.3 82.1 68 69.5

    2012-13 69.9 79.2 65.6 64.1

    2013-14 65.6 76.1 59.1 62.1

    2014-15 64.46 73.96 59.83 60.58

    2015-16 62.29 72.52 55.41 60.49

    2016-17 59.88 71.98 54.35 55.73

    2017-18 60.67 72.35 56.83 55.32

    2018-19 61.07 72.64 57.81 55.24

    2019-20* 56.08 65.36 50.26 54.73


    Energy & Peak Availability
    Energy Peak
    Requirement Availability Surplus(+)/ Peak Peak Met Surplus(+) / Deficts(-)
    Year Deficts(-) Demand
    (MU) (MU) (MU) (%) (MW) (MW) (MW) (%)
    -
    2010-11 8,61,591 7,88,355 73,236 -8.5 1,22,287 1,10,256 -12,031 -9.8
    -
    2011-12 9,37,199 8,57,886 79,313 -8.5 1,30,006 1,16,191 -13,815 -10.6
    -
    2012-13 9,95,557 9,08,652 86,905 -8.7 1,35,453 1,23,294 -12,159 -9
    -
    2013-14 10,02,257 9,59,829 42,428 -4.2 1,35,918 1,29,815 -6,103 -4.5
    -
    2014-15 10,68,923 10,30,785 38,138 -3.6 1,48,166 1,41,160 -7,006 -4.7

    2015-16 11,14,408 -
    10,90,850 23,558 -2.1 1,53,366 1,48,463 -4,903 -3.2
    2016-17 11,42,929 11,35,334 -7,595 -0.7 1,59,542 1,56,934 -2,608 -1.6
    2017-18 12,13,326 12,04,697 -8,629 -0.7 1,64,066 1,60,752 -3,314 -2
    2018-19 12,74,595 12,67,526 -7,070 -0.6 1,77,022 1,75,528 -1,494 -0.8
    2019-20* 12,90,247 12,83,690 -6,557 -0.5 1,83,804 1,82,533 -1,271 -0.7
    Year-wise RE generation (MU)
    Source 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-2020

    Large Hydro 1,29,244 1,21,377 1,22,313 1,26,134 1,35,040 1,55,970

    Small Hydro 8,060 8,355 7,673 5,056 8,703 9,366

    Solar 4,600 7,450 12,086 25,871 39,268 50,103

    Wind 28,214 28,604 46,011 52,666 62,036 64,639

    Bio mass 14,944 16,681 14,159 15,252 16,325 13,843

    Other 414 269 213 358 425 366

    Total 1,91,025 1,87,158 2,04,182 2,27,973 2,61,797 294,288

    Total utility 11,05,446 11,68,359 12,36,392 13,02,904 13,71,517 13,85,114


    power
    % Renewable 17.28% 16.02% 16.52% 17.50% 19.10% 21.25%
    power
    Additional Energy Availability & Share of RE
    in it
    Share of Solar &
    Growth in Energy
    Year Wind in Total Energy
    Availability (MU)
    Solar & Wind (MU) Availability

    17-18 69,363 78537 113.23%


    18-19 62,829 1,01,304 161.24%
    19-20 16,164 1,14,742 709.86%
    Share of Solar & Wind in Total Energy
    Availability
    Energy Availability Solar & Wind Energy Share of Solar & Wind
    Year (MU) (MU) in Energy Availability

    17-18 12,04,697 78537 6.52%


    18-19 12,67,526 1,01,304 7.99%
    19-20 12,83,690 1,14,742 8.94%
    Conclusions
    • PLF of Thermal Power Plants is reducing over the
    years as we are adding more and more Solar and
    Wind energy. Current Avg. PLF of thermal PPs is
    hovering around technical minimum (55%)
    • Additional energy availability from Generation by
    Solar & Wind exceeds much more than the
    addition in demand thereby causing this
    reduction of PLF of thermal plants as RE is having
    “Must Run” Status.
    Conclusions
    • While cost of RE generation is less than thermal,
    the associated balancing costs in form of higher
    associated transmission charges (due to lower
    utilization of green corridors etc.), massive
    increase in ancillary services requirement etc.,
    make it comparable to conventional power.
    • Besides, discoms will have to continue paying
    for fixed charges for stranded thermal capacity
    caused due to backing down of thermal PPAs.
    Conclusions
    • Therefore, any growth in RE power will be at the cost of
    existing thermal power plants. The present financial stress is
    when share of RE is less than 9%. If is increases to 21% by
    2022, the financial stress in the sector will grow manifold as
    more and more thermal plants will become in-operational but
    need continued debt servicing.
    • Average cost of supply will continue to increase because of
    these additional costs will adversely affect the affordability of
    consumers to pay for expensive power. This will further
    deteriorate the financial stress of discoms and contagion will
    be passed on to the power sector through defaults by discoms
    and gencos to the banks leading to NPAs.
    Suggested Solutions
    • Addition of Renewables ( Solar & Wind) should be
    limited to :
    – Replace the retiring thermal PPs
    – At least 20% of RE should with storage system to give
    RTC (round the clock power)
    – At least 80% of any increase in demand should be met
    by RE and remaining through preferably hydro.
    – RE being part of UNFCC action plan, should continue to
    be “a shared concern with differentiated responsibility”
    and therefore, every state should have its own
    trajectory.

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