Electricity Distribution Business in India Alternative Suggestive Framework for Implementation of Open Access

Abstract

The transmission sector on the other hand has been on the spotlight since the introduction of the enhancement of installed capacity of the renewables. India has been long struggling to link the five regional grids to operate as one. This is due to the fact that the inter-regional transmission capacity of the regional transmission grid is much lower than that required for hassle-free transmission within the country. The southern grid which had been the bottleneck in this transmission due to poor link with the NEW grid has been strengthened recently and has to be strengthened more to meet the high power requirements of the southern grid to be met by the power surplus eastern grid, which is unable to sell its power to the southern grid due to the congestion of the transmission networks connecting them to the southern grid. Even the 62650 MW capacity of inter-regional transmission capacity is much low compared to the overall transformation capacity of 700950 MVA, a transmission capacity of 359033 ckt km and an overall installed capacity of 308834 MW.