Sunday January 11, 2009

India aims for 10% nuclear power, 60000 megawatts from nuclear energy by 2030

bloomberg.com :

India may produce 60,000 megawatts of nuclear energy by 2030, Shyam Saran, special envoy to the prime minister, said in New Delhi today [8 Jan 2009]. India aims to add nuclear capacity to increase electricity generating capacity and help cut peak power shortages that may widen to 18.1% in the year to Mar 2009. India signed atomic accords with the US, Russia and France after a 30-year international ban on nuclear trade with the South Asian nation was lifted in Sep 2008. Nuclear power may generate as much as 10% of India's electricity by 2030, Saran said. Nuclear power plants accounted for 2.9% of India's installed capacity of 146,753 megawatts at the end of Oct 2008. India wants to add 40,000 megawatts of capacity by 2020.

- India's goal to generate 10% of its electricity from nuclear power is a laudable one. Even as the electrical grids of the world evolve to become smarter and more decentralized, reliable baseload electrical power generation will still remain a primary concern for a long time to come. With currently available technology, there are still just about a handful of ways to generate baseload power - fossil fuels including diesel and fuel oil, natural gas and coal, hydro, geothermal - and nuclear power. Besides hydro and geothermal power which are naturally geographically limited in scope, renewable sources such as solar and wind are for the most part intermittent. On the multi-gigawatt scale at the country level, governments are finding that nuclear power remains one of the options that they should take a good look at.

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3. Gulf Arab states want nuclear power
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5. Developing countries eye nuclear power: report
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