The document provides an overview of various sources of power generation in India including thermal, nuclear, hydro, solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, and tidal wave energy. It discusses the basic working principles and key details of each type of power generation such as the top power plants in India, installed capacities, production amounts, location of sites, etc. The presentation also outlines some of the advantages and challenges of the different power sources.

1. A
Presentation on
Presented by:
Shilpi Mathur
Kiranjit Kaur

2. Overview of-
 Thermal Power
 Nuclear Power
 Hydro Power
 Solar Power
 Wind Power
 Biomass Power
 Geothermal Energy
 Tidal Wave Energy

3.  Fuels
 Nuclear Energy
 Energy stored in water
 Solar Energy
 Wind Power
 Biomass Power
 Geothermal Energy
 Tidal Power

4.  Coal based
Most frequent fuel of energy
 Gas based
Liquefied natural gas is used
 Oil based

5.  Thermal power plant is generally a steam driven
power plant.
 Water is heated, turns into steam and spins a
steam turbine which drives an electrical
generator.
 About 70% of the electricity consumed in India is
generated through thermal power plants
 Vindhyachal super thermal power plant is the
largest in India
 It generates 4360MW of electricity

7. Hydroelectricity is the
term referring to
electricity generated by
hydropower
Three Gorges dam

8.  Production of electrical power through the use
of the gravitational force of falling or flowing
water
 Nathra Jhakri is the largest power plant of India
 It produces 1500MW of electricity
 India produces approximately 20% of the world’s
electricity
 India ranks 5th in the world in generation of
hydropower

9.  Elimination of the cost of fuel
 Hydroelectric plants have long economic
lives, with some plants still in service after
50–100 years
 Do not directly produce carbon dioxide
 Produces no waste

11.  Rampur Hydropower Project downstream from
Nathpa Jhakri on the River Satluj in Himachal
Pradesh
 Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Power project on the
River Alaknanda in Uttarakhand
 Luhri Hydro Electric Project on the River Sutlej
in Himachal Pradesh

12. A Nuclear Reactor is a
device to initiate and
control a sustained
nuclear chain reaction

13.  Heat from nuclear fission is used to raise steam,
which runs through turbines
 Currently, twenty nuclear power reactors
produce 4,780 MW which is about 2.7% of total
generation
 India has a vision of becoming the world leader
in nuclear power technology

14. An induced nuclear
fission event
The power output of the
reactor is adjusted by
controlling how many
neutrons are able to create
more fissions

15.  Practically independent of geographical factor
 No combustion products
 Clean source of power which does not
contribute to air pollution
 Fuel transportation networks and large storage
facilities not required

16.  High risk of accidents
 Waste from nuclear energy is extremely
dangerous
 Uranium is a scarce resource

17. India's operating Nuclear Power Reactors:
Reactor State Type MW net, each Commercial
operation
Safeguard
Status
Tarapur 1 & 2 Maharashtra BWR 150 1969 item-specific
Kaiga 1 & 2 Karnataka PHWR 202 1999-2000
Kaiga 3 & 4 Karnataka PHWR 202 2007, (due 2011)
Kakrapar 1 & 2 Gujarat PHWR 202 1993-95 December 2010
under new
agreement
Madras 1 & 2
(MAPS)
Tamil Nadu PHWR 202 1984-86
Narora 1 & 2 Uttar Pradesh PHWR 202 1991-92 in 2014 under new
agreement
Rajasthan 1 Rajasthan PHWR 90 1973 item-specific
Rajasthan 2 Rajasthan PHWR 187 1981 item-specific
Rajasthan 3 & 4 Rajasthan PHWR 202 1999-2000 early 2010 under
new agreement
Rajasthan 5 & 6 Rajasthan PHWR 202 Feb & April
2010
Oct 2009 under
new agreement
Tarapur 3 & 4 Maharashtra PHWR 490 2006, 05
Total (20) 4385 Mwe

19. Solar Energy can be tapped
using:
 Solar thermal
 Photo voltaic cell
An aerial view of solar panel

20. Solar energy is used to
produce steam which is
subsequently used to
drive a turbo-generator

21. Photovoltaic is the
direct conversion
of light into
electricity at the
atomic level

22.  The first Indian solar thermal power project
(2X50MW) is in progress in Phalodi (Rajasthan)
 Costs 4 times as much as the coal based steam
thermal power plant
 India has desert area of 2,08,110 sq km in
Rajasthan and Gujarat
 A 60km * 60km area can produce 1,00,000 MW of
power

23. Wind turbines in Tamil Nadu
Velocity of the wind is
used to rotate large fans
attached to turbines.
The Kinetic energy from
wind is converted into
mechanical energy.

24.  Horizontal axis wind machines - The main rotor
shaft and electrical generator is located at the
top of a tower, and must be pointed into the
wind
 Vertical axis wind machines – They have the
main rotor shaft arranged vertically. So, does
not need to be pointed into the wind to be
effective

26.  Darrieus - Good efficiency, produce
large torque ripple and cyclical
stress on the tower, which
contributes to poor reliability.
 Giromill - A subtype of Darrieus
turbine with straight, as opposed to
curved, blades
 Savonius – High reliability, low
efficiency power turbines and self-
starting if there are at least three
scoops.
Darrieus wind
turbine

27.  Location of site
 Constant angular velocity
 Variation in wind velocity
 Need of a storage system
 Strong supporting structure
 Occupation of large area of land

28.  The turbines rotate the generator to produce
electricity.
 India has the second largest installed wind
power capacity in the world
 Installed capacity of wind power in India is
12009.14 MW
 It is estimated that 6,000 MW of additional wind
power capacity will be installed in India by 2012

29.  Tamil Nadu 6007 MW
 Maharashtra 2310.70 MW
 Gujarat 2175.60 MW
 Karnataka 1730.10 MW
 Rajasthan 1524.70 MW
 Madhya Pradesh 275.50 MW
 Andhra Pradesh 200.20 MW
 Kerala 32.8 MW
 Orissa 2 MW
 West Bengal 1.1 MW

30. Bagasse, Forestry and agro residue
& Agricultural based industrial
wastes are burnt to produce steam
Agro-residues 16,881MW
Bagasse cogeneration 5000MW
From waste 2700MW

31.  Indian Biomass reaches 1GW in 2010
 Has gained momentum because of limited
availability of conventional energy
 Attracts investment of over INR 600 crores every
year
 Generates more than 5000 million units of
electricity
 Employment of more than 10 million man in rural
areas

32.  The proposed eight plants each having a power
generation capacity of up to 8 MW would come
up in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra,
Punjab and Rajasthan
 Green Planet Energy Private Limited has
invested a sum of 9.6 billion rupees on setting
up 14 biomass power projects in the state of
Punjab

33.  Biomass produces greenhouse emissions
 It takes considerable energy to produce biofuels
from certain feedstock
 Biomass collection is difficult
 Biomass crops not available all year
 Still an expensive source, both in terms of
producing the biomass and converting it to alcohols

34. Geothermal energy is
utilized to produce
steam for generation of
electricity earth’s
natural heat available
inside
Mumbai power plant

35.  Generation of electric power
 Space heating for buildings
 Industrial process heat

36.  Energy is accessed by drilling water or steam
wells
 Geothermal provinces can produce 10,600 MW
of power
 15th position in geothermal power use by
country

38.  Puga Valley (J&K)
 Tatapani (Chhattisgarh)
 Godavari Basin Manikaran (Himachal Pradesh)
 Bakreshwar (West Bengal)
 Tuwa (Gujarat)
 Unai (Maharashtra)
 Jalgaon (Maharashtra)

39.  Energy of sea tides is used to rotate turbines
which drive generators to produce electricity
 Tidal power potential in India is 8000-9000 MW
Gulf of Cambay 7000MW
Gulf of Kutch 1200MW
Sunder bans 100MW

40.  Dam or Dyke
 The function of dam is to form a barrier between
the sea and the basin or between one basin and
the other in case of multiple basins .
 Sluice ways
 These are used to fill the basin during the high tide
or empty the basin during the low tide.
 Power house

41.  Single basin arrangement
 Single ebb-cycle system
 Single tide-cycle system
 Double cycle system
 Double basin arrangement

42. Public sector has a share of 97%
 NHPC – National Hydroelectric Power
Corporation
 NEEPCO – Northeast Electric Power Company
 SJVNL – Satluj Jal Vidut Nigam

43.  Backbone of Economic Development
 Main input for Agriculture and Industry
 Energy Crisis
 Pollution