India sees 100,000 mw on tap in Saarc electricity grid

[terex]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-on-tap-in-Saarc-grid/articleshow/8103859.cms

NEW DELHI: A regional electricity grid has the potential to put on tap a capacity of 100,000 mw for India and its South Asian neighbours, minister of state for power K C Venugopal said on Wednesday, endorsing the proposed Saarc grid being piloted by the Asian Development Bank.

Integrating the power distribution networks would help address the energy deficit faced by South Asian countries and improve relations, Venugopal told a brainstorming session organized by industry chamber CII and SARI a US-sponsored regional energy initiative.

Venugopal's statement coincides with talks in Islamabad between commerce secretaries of Pakistan and India and is seen as an endorsement of power trade between the two countries.

Pakistan commerce secretary had earlier in the week claimed India had offered to sell power and it would be discussed during the talks. Top officials of India's commerce and power ministries denied knowledge of such an offer.

But the possibility of such a trade in future remains since both countries are signatories to the proposed Saarc grid project to link India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka.

India already imports some 1,400 mw from Bhutan and supplies 50-100 mw to Nepal. It is working on 10,000 mw hydel projects in Bhutan and some 1,000 mw in Nepal for sharing power generated from these projects. New Delhi is also setting up a link with Bangladesh with the aim of exchanging 500 mw and examining a subsea link with Sri Lanka.

But, Venugopal said such transnational power trading involves complex technological, financial and commercial issues. Admittedly, the initial talks on linking the grids between India and Pakistan had faltered on fears over technology mismatch and grid security. These were completely stopped after the Mumbai attacks.

 

[pakiace]

thanks but no thanks, I wont even use the word potential here for ourselves as WE CAN do it, provided no corrupt govt is in power, we can produce 50,000 MW of electricity from coal for 500 years, generate about 20,000MW of electricity from wind mills which is already in progress and electricity would be soon available from them by 2012

so you can keep the 100,000 offer for yourself plus in despite of making a lac megawatt of electricity, load shedding still exists in rural areas of india mainly punjab and south
because for some indians like you, mumbai is the whole india which is not :)

 

[Zionist Hindu]

What nonsense if you think you can become self sufficient in energy, why not sell the excess energry to india or to bangladesh? If you have saarc grid in place pakistan with all the resources stands to gain more in future. Looks like hate has blinded you!!!

 

[terex]

thanks but no thanks, I wont even use the word potential here for ourselves as WE CAN do it, provided no corrupt govt is in power, we can produce 50,000 MW of electricity from coal for 500 years, generate about 20,000MW of electricity from wind mills which is already in progress and electricity would be soon available from them by 2012

so you can keep the 100,000 offer for yourself plus in despite of making a lac megawatt of electricity, load shedding still exists in rural areas of india mainly punjab and south
because for some indians like you, mumbai is the whole india which is not :)

Where is the coal in pakistan?

are you bragging about cheap lignite coal which pollute a lot,causes acid rain!!
or are you talking about coal gas production technology ?

Wind mill in pakistan??

i doubt wind mill is sustainable and profitable...indian company suzlon is asia one of the laregest wind mill producer ,has been struggling to become profitable despite getting billion dollar of orders from india,china and western country!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzlon_Energy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2F5ycNdZmU
India is not selling electricity to anyone!we want proper integration of grids,so that no electricity is wasted!
its like ,lahore can buy electricity from indian punjab and pakistan sindh can sell their surplus to indian rajasthan!!

it will help us save energy in transit!!Who said india has no shortage of electricity!!we have shortage of current in india and we source coal from australia(even though we have no shortage of coal )..India is already buidling 10 nuclear plants and we would be adding 60000 MW in every 5 years!!

i dont know what is the demand and supply of electricity in pakistan
but in india we produce close to 1.9 lak megawat and still we are short of 30% electricity!!