DO YOU KNOW?

• 1 You can include the cost of rooftop solar installation in your home loan; even additional loan is easily available under priority sector lending
• 2 Power generation capacity increase exceeded the target by 27% (22,566 MW vs 17,830 MW) in last one year
• 3 Transmission capacity increase exceeded the target by 37% in the last year
• 4 Rs. 15 lakh crores of investments are planned in the power, coal and new & renewable energy sector, over five years
• 5 Compared to abysmally low growth earlier, Coal despatch to power sector by Coal India grew by 9% in last year
• 6 Per capita consumption in India crossed 1000 units in 2014-15
• 7 UPA Coal Crisis: Coal production grew annually at only 1.5% vs 14.3% growth in installed capacity of coal based power plants between 2010-14
• 8 From realization of less than 1% of solar potential earlier to 5 times increase in capacity addition target in the last one year
• 9 From 28 crore people without access to power vs rapid march towards 24X7 power for all under Modi Sarkar
• 10 2012 saw the largest power outage in history with 62 crore people losing power in India; now sufficient safeguards have been put in place to ensure it is not repeated
• 11 Distribution Dilemma: DisComs losing Rs. 70,000 crores annually and have accumulated losses of over Rs. 250,000 crores
• 12 Over 90,000 street lights were replaced in Vishakhapatnam within three months, saving 45 lakh units of power
• 13 Energy efficient buildings run by EESL save 43 lakh units of power annually
• 14 LED bulbs last more than 50 times longer than ordinary bulbs & 8-10 times longer than CFLs
• 15 By replacing domestic bulbs with LEDs, India will save 5,000 MW, more than the power generated from an Ultra Mega Power Plant
• 16 Lighting sector accounts for about 20% of the total energy consumption in India
• 17 If all bulbs in India are changed to LEDs, we can save 40,000 MW, almost 1/6 of India's installed power capacity
• 18 Converting India's 3 crore streetlights to LEDs can save 500 crore units of power and Rs. 3,000 crore every year
• 19 LED streetlights can reduce power consumption by around 50%
• 20 Power saving of 37% has been achieved through high efficiency farm pumpsets in Hubli, Karnataka
• 21 EESL projects have helped avoid capacity addition of 285 MW in 2014-15
• 22 World's largest renewable energy financing meet RE-Invest generated huge commitments to "Make in India" and Invest in India
• 23 Jai Jawan: 300 MW of grid connected solar projects to be established at defence establishments. Solarisation of Indo-Pak border ongoing
• 24 Canal Solar: Save land & water while generating local power through canal top solar plants. 100 MW canal top solar capacity being setup
• 25 Sixteen transmission schemes worth Rs 34,133 crores have been approved for implementation under Tariff Based Competitive Bidding (TBCB)
• 26 Coal India production grew by 3.2 crore tonnes which was higher than the growth in the past four years combined
• 27 19% growth in coal exploration (8.28 lakh meters vs 6.97 lakh meters) in 2014-15 with plans to increase to 25 lakh meters
• 28 15660 villages were electrified in the last year exceeding the target of 15000 villages