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Electricity Installed Capacity: Non Utilities

(Source: CEA)

Power intensive Industries such as Aluminium, Cement, Chemicals, Fertilizers, Iron & Steel, Paper, Oil Refining and Sugar etc. have set up their own captive power plants, either to supplement the electricity purchased from the Utilities, or even more importantly, to entirely protect themselves from grid power and have certainty of electricity supply fully under own control

Electricity is also produced as a by-product of certain industrial processes

The captive power plants of industries have been allowed to sell their surplus power to the Grid under certain conditions

Captive Plants are also referred to as Non-Utilities

Central Electricity Authority (CEA) collects information from the industries with demand of 0.5 MW and above having their own captive power plants

For 2023-24, the total installed capacity of Non-Utilities was 79,340 MW, comprising 46,900 MW Coal based, 18,300 MW Diesel based, 6,500 MW Gas based, or a total themal based capacity of 71,700 MW. Large-hydro based No-Utilities capacity was 140 MW while Non Hydro Renewable was 7,500 MW