Bridge the ‘real’ demand supply gap

India needs to do a lot to bridge the gap between the real requirement and the available supply.
Shaheedul Hasan, Chief Operating Officer, KP Group
  Becoming power surplus needs to be defined especially in the light of 300-400 million Indians still deprived of power, about 35,000 villages still remaining unelectrified and average per capita electricity consumption being only 11GJ (Gigajoule) vis-à-vis world average being 18GJ and 200 GJ for the USA and Canada. And for those who are grid-connected, the quality and reliability of available power is much to be desired. While the talk of progress is quite loud, the ground zero situation tells an altogether a different story. “India needs to do a lot to bridge the gap between the real requirement and the available supply. The amount of diesel being consumed in off-grid regions are simply mind boggling and could be avoided by decentralised generation systems facilitated by renewable like solar and biomass. This will also help in reducing the FOREX spent for paying against import of oil, gas and coal which is a significant part of our FOREX payment. Heavy dependence on imported fuel has another critical dimension of national energy security which could be significantly reduced through distributed generation system using renewable sources,” briefs Shaheedul Hasan, Chief Operating Officer, KP Group.

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