CEA calculates power estimates wrongly, ends up showing more demand

At at time when the country is already going through a phase of power crisis, the last thing it wants is a miscalculation regarding its power needs by the apex planning body of the sector called the Central Electricity Authority or CEA.[caption id=“attachment_2027721” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Calculation goof up. Reuters[/caption] _“In October 2014 for instance, the CEA’s estimate for peak demand met was higher by nearly 2,500 MW as comparison to the corresponding estimate of grid manager POSOCO — all because the CEA has been resorting to calculating the all-India peak demand by summing up daily peaks met in the country’s five different regions on different dates during the month of October, instead of collating the highest demand met across all regions on a single day."_ —a report in The Indian Express said. Due to the faulty method of calculation that the CEA adopted, its findings were naturally not similar to the figures arrived by grid manager POSOCO. The two figures showed a difference of 2,500 MW in October last year with the CEA reaching a number which was more than the actual requirement. However, the CEO did not offer any explanation on the difference of estimates with the POSOCO. Read the complete story here