Electricity accounts for about 40 per cent of global energy-related Green House gas emissions and these emissions are expected to grow to 58 per cent by 2030. The conventional power plants do not meet the environmental norms and efficiency demands of the future.
As a power-deficit country, India has the challenge to significantly increase its generation capacity as well as reduce carbon emission. The per capita consumption of electricity is a lead indicator of growth of the generation sector. Here, India is ranked 153th in the world; its per capita electricity consumption is 493kWh against world average of around 2800kWh. In the last fiscal, against the peak demand of 1,35,453 MW, the total power availability was 1,23,294 MW - a deficit of 12,000 MW. The country had to tackle an average deficit of 9.3 per cent and a peak demand/availability deficit of around 10.6 per cent. This indicates that there is a large potential for growth of this industry.
To meet this challenge of increasing demand, two-pronged action has been initiated in the generation sector - addition of generation capacity and enhancing the operational efficiency. At the same time being a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol, India has to reduce the generation-related impact on environment.
Coal is likely to continue as the preferred fuel for power generation due to its cost advantage and abundance. Having said this, there is an increased awareness and sensitivity towards environment protection globally and therefore, using the latest technology to ensure minimum emission is a mandate. Thus, Supercritical and Ultra Supercritical coal fired plants are going to be the future in Indian market. Supercritical steam conditions improve the turbine cycle heat rate significantly over subcritical steam conditions. A supercritical power plant can register higher levels of efficiency.
To cater to this growing industry with limited resource and fierce competition, the only option is to enhance operational efficiency across the value chain right from achieving speed to reducing fixed cost to increasing reliability and availability.
In this environment, power generation is one of C&A's top-priority segment. As we continue to be innovative, the cover story talks about transforming the way you procure C&I for station controls to achieve a better competitive positioning. I-BOP as a concept addresses the most pressing challenges of integration of C&I systems. The concept comprises 'integrated solution' to minimise your coordination with various low value C&I package vendors / OEMs, reduce manpower requirement for vendor engineering, reduced site coordination and supervision through single window approach and improve the overall speed of project implementation.
This year is an exciting one for C&A, as we have further expanded our DCS offering and built engineering capabilities in our Power Gen C&I. We offer integrated C&I solution for power generation including Station DCS, Boiler & Turbine integral controls, IBOP and C&I for TG & SG.
In the case study section we are featuring a project executed by C&A for 2X700 MW Supercritical plant for Nabha Power Ltd where we have delivered an Integrated DCS system involving Boiler, Turbine and Station Controls on a Uniform platform. This project demonstrates our technical competence, domain expertise, experience base and capabilities.
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Sandeep Bhat
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