The extensive load-shedding in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Tarapur is creating panic situation in small and medium scale industries. Use of generators is not economic and diesel is not easily available due to fuel crisis. They have two choices. One is to shift the factories to Gujarat or look out for non-conventional energy sources such as solar/wind to augment the conventional power supply. India needs to exploit all possible resources to cater to the electricity demand of the present and the future.
Somehow, the governments, state as well as central, have bungled the issue in-spite of the fact that the gap between the supply and demand is widening by the day. Under such circumstances, what will happen to the projected industrial growth rate of over two digits? Only a bleak and dark future!
Some of the immediate measures to improve the situation from a common man’s point of view are: Improve the Conversion efficiency (fuel to electricity) in the power plants; reduce the loss due to transmission and efficient management of the power distribution system. Smaller captive power plants in appropriate locations should be considered very seriously by the policy makers to feed the power-starved industrial belts throughout the country.
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