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12-August-2011 18:18 IST

Per Capita Power Consumption Dadra & Nagar Haveli has the highest per capita electricity consumption in the country at 11,863.64 kWh while Bihar has the lowest at 122.11 kWh as per the latest available State/UT-wise data on annual per capita consumption of electricity in the country for the year 2009-10(details in Annex 1). In a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today Minister of State for Power Shri K.C. Venugopal stated that the National Electricity Policy aims to increase per capita availability of electricity to over 1000 units by 2012. He added that the per capita consumption of electricity in the country is much lower than that of many developed countries (details in Annex 2). The Minister said that the Planning Commission had fixed a capacity addition target of 62,374 MW during the Mid Term Appraisal. Projects aggregating to 40,131 MW have been commissioned till 05.08.2011 during 11th Plan and the remaining projects are under construction. Shri Venugopal said that the other steps taken by the Government to increase availability of power in the country which will in turn lead to enhancement in per-capita availability of power include (i) rigorous monitoring of the on-going capacity addition programme, (ii) initiative for augmentation of domestic manufacturing capacity of power plant equipment, (iii) development of Ultra Mega Power Projects of 4000 MW each, (iv) harnessing surplus captive power into the grid, (v) Renovation, Modernization & Life Extension of old and inefficient generating units, (vi) development of an extensive network of high voltage transmission for transfer of power from surplus to deficit regions, etc.
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ANNEX-I
STATEMENT SHOWING STATEWISE PER CAPITA ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION IN THE COUNTRY FOR THE YEAR 2009-10

States / UTs
Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu & Kashmir Punjab Rajasthan Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand Chandigarh

Per Capita Consumption of Electricity(kWh)

1222.21 1379.99 952.02 1526.86 736.20 348.37 1112.29 1340.00

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Delhi Sub-Total (NR) Gujarat Madhya Pradesh Chhattisgarh Maharashtra Goa Daman & Diu D & N Haveli Sub-Total (WR) Andhra Pradesh Karnataka Kerala Tamil Nadu Puducherry Lakshadweep Sub-Total (SR) Bihar Jharkhand Orissa West Bengal A & N Islands Sikkim Sub-Total (ER) Assam Manipur Meghalaya Nagaland Tripura Arunachal Pradesh Mizoram Sub-Total (NER) Total(All India)

1651.26 695.11 1615.24 602.07 1546.94 1028.22 2263.63 7118.23 11863.64 1116.92 966.99 903.24 525.25 1131.58 1743.37 418.14 938.88 122.11 880.43 874.26 550.16 493.98 850.00 481.36 204.80 240.22 675.19 218.03 335.47 470.00 376.99 257.98 778.71

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ANNEX-II PER CAPITA ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION : COMPARATIVE POSITION (kWh)

Sl. No.

Country

Year

2008

1 2

Canada USA Australia Japan France Germany Korea UK Russia Italy South Africa Brazil China India World

17053 13647 11174 8072 7703 7148 8853 6067 6443 5656 4770 2232 2471 734* 2782

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4 5 6 7 8

9
10 11 12 13 14 15 Note:-

Basic data obtained from IEA Website. Per Capita Consumption = (Gross Electrical Energy Availability/Population) * Per Capita energy consumption for 2008-09 : 734 kWh and the same for 2009-10 is 779 kWh.

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