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The inherited model of energy development and consumption in India was that of a centrally planned system in largely publicly owned and operated electricity and energy system, with a substantial Central Government capacity and the rest in State Electricity Boards (SEBs).

The substantial increase in the growth rate of the economy, thermal capacity growth was only 38% of the decade before privatization. Since thermal capacity was a large part of the total the growth of total generation capacity in the Nineties was around half that of the previous decade. The situation in this decade up to 06/07 with a growth rate of 27.31% was worse. In this decade growth of hydel and wind capacity goes up substantially, since it was 33.51% in the decade of the nineties and is already at 38.25% until 06/07. This is particularly true of wind capacity of which growth is encouraging and which stands at 9,000 MW now.

Advances in transmission technologies in India including a large HVDC system have been noted. Technical losses of interregional transfer of power are low and globally comparable. More recently, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) has established a 1,200-kV National Test Station for developing the technology for transmitting power at 1,200 kV.