ETF clears proposals to rid Prayagraj, Kanpur of load shedding
LUCKNOW : The UP Power Transmission Corporation Ltd (UPPTCL) will carry out new works worth around Rs 200 crore to do away with the problem of overloading and resultant load shedding in Prayagraj and Kanpur districts.
The Energy Task Force (ETF) on Monday cleared all the proposals in this regard at its meeting chaired by chief secretary Rajendra Kumar Tiwari here. As per the proposals, the UPPTCL will take loan up to 70% of the project cost from financial institutions while the state government will make the remaining 30% funds available to it.
The UPPTCL had proposed to set up a LILO of 220 kV PhulpurJhusi interconnection line at the under-construction 400 kV substation Machhlishahr in Jaunpur to avoid the overloading of 220 kV Allahabad-Phulpur line or 220 kV Allahabad-Jhusi line.
LILO (Loop-in-Loop-out) is an arrangement where a transmission line is constructed by tapping the existing transmission line to feed load of a nearby substation. The work that also includes capacity enhancement of Machhlishahr substation will require an investment of Rs 75.39 crore.
Another proposal put in the meeting sought an investment of Rs124.20 crore to set up a 220/33 kV, 3x60 megavolt amperes (MVA) Kidwainagar-Govindnagar gas insulated substation (GIS)—a substation in which the major conducting structures are contained within a sealed environment with dielectric gas working as the insulating medium. “The ETF cleared both the proposals seeking a total investment of Rs 199.59 crore,” an official who was privy to the meeting said. “The new works will rid most areas in Prayagraj and Kanpur of power cuts that are necessitated by overloading of transmission lines,” the official added.
The UPPTCL had to decide to set up a costly gas insulated substation (Kidwainagar-Govindnagar) with underground lines instead of LILO substation in Kanpur after the UP Metro pointed out that an overhead line on the metro alignment of Corridor-2 could not be permitted for safety reasons.