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AP Transco Joint Managing Director G. Surya Sai Praveenchand connected Monday said that the powerfulness inferior has acceptable an ambitious people of completing astir 55 large transmission projects worthy astir ₹9,320 crore during the existent year. These projects are expected to adhd 8,853 MVA of transformer capableness and 1,558 circuit kilometres of transmission lines to the State grid.
Participating successful the Republic Day celebrations on with AP Genco in-charge Managing Director P. Pulla Reddy astatine the Vidyut Soudha here, Mr. Praveenchand said that caller 400, 220 and 132 kV substations were being developed astatine strategical locations to guarantee round-the-clock, reliable and prime powerfulness supply.
He said AP Transco is presently operating 380 substations and 1,030 powerfulness transformers with a full capableness of 71,049 MVA, too much than 33,000 circuit kilometres of high-voltage transmission lines. In caller years, the inferior has commissioned and augmented 3,240 MVA of extra-high-voltage substation capableness and laid astir 950 circuit kilometres of caller transmission lines, starring to important betterment successful strategy reliability and voltage illustration crossed the State.
Mr. Praveenchand said that transmission losses had been reduced to a historical debased of 2.60% done extended digitisation, real-time monitoring and web optimisation. He added that the Transco was implementing Battery Energy Storage System projects with a capableness of 1,500 MW oregon 3,000 MWh successful 2 phases to enactment grid stability, renewable vigor integration and highest request management.
Andhra Pradesh has a full installed powerfulness capableness of 21,153 MW, with renewable vigor accounting for 37% of the installed capableness and 22% of full powerfulness generation. The State recorded a highest powerfulness request of 13,712 MW during 2024–25, which is projected to emergence to 15,223 MW successful 2025–26, helium said.
Transco Directors J. V. Rao, A. K. V. Bhaskar and N. V. Ramana Murthy, AP Genco Directors M. Sujay Kumar, P. Ashok Kumar Reddy and V. Usha, and Additional Secretary P. Roja besides spoke.
