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City power system being upgraded for extra load
CURRENT LOAD on the system in Indore city is 220 MW and it increases at the rate of 10 per cent to 15 per cent every year, that is by the year 2010 it would become approximately 320 MW but according to the arrangements made by the Company only 60 MW additional load can be accommodated, which means that there are arrangements for a little more than two years. However, the Company is making efforts to further upgrade the system.
CURRENT LOAD on the system in Indore city is 220 MW and it increases at the rate of 10 per cent to 15 per cent every year, that is by the year 2010 it would become approximately 320 MW but according to the arrangements made by the Company only 60 MW additional load can be accommodated, which means that there are arrangements for a little more than two years. However, the Company is making efforts to further upgrade the system.
Talking to Hindustan Times, MP Western Region Electricity Distribution Company’s additional executive engineer M P Tiwari said that the system is being upgraded in the City to accommodate additional load in the future, seeing the increasing demand. On an average, the load increases in the City by 20 MW to 30 MW every year.
To meet the demand of increasing load 13, 5 MVA 33/11 KV sub stations were established in the last one-year under Asian Development Bank (ADB) Scheme.
Work of four sub-stations is in progress. Besides this, two sub-stations of 5 MVA capacity were established in last one-and-a-half years and work of four sub-stations has been awarded to a private company. Tiwari added that under ADB scheme 190 distribution transformers of 100 KVA capacity and 270 transformers of 200 KVA capacity were established in the City in two years.
Under ADB scheme 33 KV line wire measuring 20 km was augmented, that is, it was replaced by thick wire to increase the current carrying capacity of the wire in one year. He further said that work of 33 KV and 11 KV line has been given to Larson and Tubro.
Tiwari informed that the plan is for five years to accommodate additional load. He reasoned that this would reduce line loss and reduce voltage fluctuation in future and load capacity would also increase further in the future.
