Energy in India

 CENTRAL POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE (CPRI)

• CPRI a society registered under the Ministry of Power serves as national laboratory to carry out applied research in electrical power engineering.
• It also functions as an independent national testing and certification authority for electrical equipment for ensuring their reliability.
• The Institute has built sophisticated facilities, both in the areas of research and testing. The important facilities include,
• 2500 MVA Short Circuit Testing with Synthetic Testing Facility at Bengaluru,
• Ultra High Voltage Research Laboratory at Hyderabad,
• Short Circuit Testing Facility at Bhopal,
• Thermal Research Centre at Koradi, Nagpur
• Regional Testing Laboratory at Noida, Kolkata and
• The Institute has set up and commissioned the state-of-the-art seismic testing facility and a Real Time Digital Simulation facility.
• The CPRI’s laboratories are accredited under the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration of Laboratories (NABL), which is the national body for accreditation of laboratories.
• The Research Institute has been given the membership status in the group of Short Circuit Testing Liaison of Europe.
• CPRI laboratories are approved for certain products like communication cables, LT capacitors etc. by Underwriters Laboratories and Canadian Standard Association.
• The Institute has been accredited by INTERTEKASTA, UK for testing of low voltage and medium voltage equipment, power transformers and power cables.
• The Institute works as a nodal agency for national level power system research.
• The Centre for Collaborative and Advanced Research has been established for creating infrastructure for the visiting scientists to carry out research.
• The Institute has established Refrigerator and Air Conditioners testing laboratory under the Standards and Labelling Programme.
• CPRI has served as Advisor-cum-Consultant under APDRP—I for 3 southern states, Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.

NORTH-EASTERN ELECTRIC POWER CORPORATION LTD. (NEEPCO)

• NEEPCO was incorporated on April 2, 1976 as a wholly owned Govt Enterprise under Ministry of Power to construct and operate power stations in the north-eastern region.
• The authorised share capital of Corporation is at Rs.3500 crore.
• The installed capacity of the NEEPCO is 1,130 MW comprising 755 MW of hydro power and 375 MW of gas based power.
• The Corporation currently meets more than 60% of the energy requirement of the north eastern region.
• It is an ISO: 9001:2000 (Quality) ISO 14001:1996 (Environment) and OHSAS-1800121999 (Safety) Company at Shillong.

 CRUDE OIL AND NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION

• Crude oil production for the year 2013-14 was 37,788 Million Metric Tonne (MMT) as against 37,862 MMT for the previous year viz. 2012-13, showing a marginal decrease of about 0.20%.
• Natural Gas Production for the year 2013-14 was 35,407 Billion Cubic Metre (BCM) as against 40,679 BCM in the previous year viz. 2012-13, showing a decline of about 12.96%.