Telangana has increased its installed power generation capacity to 16,506 MW from 7,778 MW in 2014 when the State was formed making into one of the fastest growing sectors in the country.
The Telangana government is now gearing up to increase the total capacity to 28,4000 MW over the next 4-5 years.
D Prabhakar Rao, Chairman and Managing Director TS Transco and TS Genco, said “We are committed to capacity addition and have received clearances for most of the projects now underway. Currently, projects with a total capacity of 11,600 MW are now under construction.”
During a recent interaction at Vidyut Soudha, Rao said “significantly, Telangana has also added about 3,400 MW of solar power generation capacity to become the State with second highest solar energy generation capacity after Karnataka and our medium term plan is to increase the capacity to 5000 MW.”
