Discoms draw R2,000- cr plan to strengthen power supply
CHANDIGARH: A plan worth Rs 2,000 crore has been drawn by the Haryana power utilities to strengthen power distribution system in the next two years.
“The utilities intend to achieve three major targets, which are evacuation of already available additional power to increase hours of supply, to give reliable and qualitative supply by removing all system constraints and to reduce aggregate technical and commercial loss considerably,” said Devender Singh, chairman and managing director, Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam ( UHBVN) and Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN).
He was speaking at a meeting of officers in Gurgaon on Sunday.
Singh said that the power distribution utilities intended to increase availability of power in the next three months.
“The need is to strengthen the distribution system and reduce aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses in villages. In villages, wherever AT&C losses were less than 25% on the feeder, all houses have meters and existing meters are relocated out of houses power supply will be given on urban pattern,” he said.
He said that villages which opt for the safe and reliable new model of power distribution and have AT&C losses less than 25% will be treated as zero power cut villages. “Restrictions in supply will not be imposed in these villages before the urban area,” he said.
Singh said under the new power supply system, the low tension distribution system was being re-laid and meters were being shifted to pillar boxes. The old bare conductor was being replaced with accident free insulated cables.
“Each consumer is give independent cable emanating from the pillar box. Under the new system, a proper energy audit and indexing of installations can be ensured,” he said.
He said the villagers having installed the new system in their villages were praising it as power complaints had reduced drastically due to elimination of the problem of overloading.
Singh said the new system was being created on the firstcome-first-serve basis.