Eleventh plan adds over twice power capacity

New power generation capacity in the current Eleventh Plan period is set to double despite hiccups that are causing targets to be missed.By the end of the plan, which will be in March 2012, power capacity addition will be about 2.5 times of the earlier plan even though it will be only 63 percent of the planned target.In the first four years of the plan, power capacities increased by 34,615 MW and may reach 50,000-52,000 MW by the end of the plan. Around 17,600 MW of power capacity is expected to be added this fiscal.As against this, the power capacity addition in the whole of the Tenth Plan stood at approximately 21,080 MW.