- The ‘Gruha Jyothi Scheme’ implemented by our government, has a total consumer registration of 1.62 crore. During year 2024-25, Rs. 9,657 crore was provided for this scheme. In the current year Rs.10,100 crore will be provided towards this scheme.
- An allocation of Rs. 16,021 crores has been made in respect of 33.84 lakh pump sets under financial assistance scheme of State Government of power supply for irrigation pumpsets up to 10 hp capacity. This scheme entails a financial assistance of around Rs.50,000 per pump set per year.
- In order to meet the growing demand for electricity in the State, a target of increasing the installed capacity of the State from 32 GW to 60 GW was announced in the previous budget. In order to achieve the goal, the following steps have been taken up:
I. The installed capacity has been increased from 31.83 GW to 34.99 GW during the year 2022-23.
II. It has been decided to operationalise the Godhna Thermal Power Plant of 800 MW capacity and Rs.13,000 crore project cost in the Tariff Based Competitive Bidding model which had been long-pending since 2008.
III. The approval for the Sharavathi Pumped-Storage Power Plant Project is under process with the MoEF. The tender process for this project with an estimated cost of Rs.10,240 crore and of 2000 MW capacity has been started.
IV. To store the energy produced from renewable sources, a 1000 MWhr Battery Power Storage facility will be established by KPTCL through PPP model at a cost of Rs.1,846 crore in 7 sub-stations.
V. To provide uninterrupted electricity supply at affordable prices to farmers, decentralised feeder solarisation of irrigation pumpsets under KUSUM-C is implemented. In Phase I, a target for undertaking a total of 1302 MW capacity projects is set, of which five works of 21 MW capacity have been completed. In phase II, total 1,192 MW capacity projects are being implemented.
VI. Under KUSUM-B scheme in order to support the farmers, our Government has enhanced its share to 50%, thus reducing the beneficiary share to 20%. Under this scheme, approval for 40,000 pumpsets has been given, and, the state government’s contribution will be Rs.752 crore.
- To strengthen the transmission network:
- 115 new sub-station have been established, 411 sub-stations have been upgraded, and a total of 3490.81 km of new transmission lines have been laid. During the next year, 100 new sub-stations will be established at a cost of Rs.8,833 crore.
- Electrification of 25,971 borewells under Ganga Kalyana scheme, electrification of 6,887 drinking water schemes, installation 1.94 lakh transformers, 51,975 HT lines and 45,047 LT lines has been undertaken in the distribution sector.
- At a cost of Rs. 850 crore, works of installing distinct phase wire for street lights in Gram Panchayats will be implemented by ESCOMs in a phased manner to reduce the burden of electricity bills on gram panchayats.
- Exemption will be provided for conversion of agricultural lands where installation of renewable energy is being done in order to encourage renewable energy in the state.
- Infrastructure Investment Trust (InvIT) which is gaining increased importance in distribution sector is being established in KPTCL after state government’s approval. It is intended to generate an investment of Rs.5,000 crore through InvIT and utilise the same for different schemes.
