RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT IN ANDHRA PRADESH USING GIS SOFTWARE

Abstract

Andhra Pradesh state, being one of the largest industrialized state in India, installation of requires electricity generation stations including Small Hydro, Wind, Biomass/Biogasse cogeneration. As per available data, there are 177 ongoing Small Hydro Power Projects (up to 25 MW) having aggregate install capacity of 523 MW. There are 377 identified/investigated SHP sites with installed capacity of 250 MW. These sites are basically on the irrigation Dam Toe, Canal fall as well as on natural river. The wind installed capacity is 124.97 MW and there are 31 sites are identified for future wind power installations in Andhra Pradesh. Biomass based generation installed capacity in Andhra Pradesh is 204.750 MW and future Biomass based installed capacity is around 72 MW. And the Biogasse- cogeneration installed capacity is 140.250 MW and • future installed capacity is around 99 MW. For the effective and efficient planning a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) based database of all Renewable Energy sites, that includes SHP, Wind, Biomass/Biogasse cogeneration has been attempted. The data has been collected from different sources including the NEDCAP (Non Conventional Energy Development Corporation of Andhra Pradesh), APGENCO (Andhra Pradesh Generatoin Corporation), APTRANSO (Andhra. Pradehs Transmission Corporation), MNES(Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources) etc.