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Chief Secretary and Special CS (Energy) K. Vijayanand has instructed the powerfulness utilities to stay connected precocious alert successful presumption of the apt interaction of Cyclone Montha and to guarantee an effectual effect to immoderate emergency.
Addressing elder officials of AP Genco, AP Transco, and DISCOMs done a teleconference from the Secretariat connected Monday, Mr. Vijayanand said it was clip to support men and worldly acceptable for contiguous restoration of powerfulness proviso successful affected areas.
He directed officials to guarantee that substations, transmission lines, and power centres were manned with capable unit and that determination was seamless coordination betwixt AP Transco and the DISCOMs to facilitate punctual rectification of transmission oregon feeder enactment damages.
The Chief Secretary besides instructed powerfulness utilities to support adjacent connection with the State Emergency Operations Centre and District Collectors to coordinate restoration activities. Responding to the Chief Secretary, AP Genco Managing Director S. Nagalakshmi said elaborate arrangements had been made astatine NTTPS, RTPP, and SDSTPS to woody with the imaginable fallout of Cyclone Montha.
All exigency systems — including diesel generators, occurrence hydrants, sump pumps, and lighting instrumentality — person been checked and kept successful moving condition. Adequate ember and substance stocks were disposable to conscionable procreation requirements for the adjacent respective days, she said.
Round-the-clock monitoring and patrolling teams, each with engineers connected displacement duty, were operating astatine each stations. Earthmovers, tractors, dewatering pumps, sandbags, and different information cogwheel person been arranged to grip dense rainfall and flooding, Ms. Nagalakshmi added.
AP Transco Joint Managing Director G. Surya Sai Praveenchand said resources had been mobilised crossed 8 districts apt to beryllium affected successful the Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada zones, covering coastal stretches.
Line gangs, erection teams, tree-cutting squads, and fault-locating units person been strategically deployed astatine captious substations to guarantee uninterrupted powerfulness supply. Emergency restoration instrumentality — including ERS towers, 7.5 HP dewatering diesel pumps, and vehicles with spare materials — person been positioned astatine cardinal locations, helium said.
DISCOM CMDs I. Prudhvi Tej (EPDCL), L. Siva Sankar (SPDCL), and P. Pulla Reddy (CPDCL) explained the measures being taken to minimise the cyclone’s interaction and reconstruct powerfulness successful the lawsuit of disruptions.
