7 months ago
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HYDERABAD
The State authorities is prepared to conscionable immoderate load of powerfulness and request for vigor during the coming Rabi and summertime seasons by commissioning the remaining 3 units of the Yadadri Thermal Power Station implicit the adjacent fewer months.
The preparedness of the powerfulness utilities was reviewed astatine a gathering by Principal Secretary (Energy) Navin Mittal present connected Saturday and was attended by Transco president and managing manager D.Krishna Bhaskar, CMDs of Genco, SPDCL, NPDCL and Singareni Collieries Company Limited S. Hareesh, Md. Musharraf Faruqui, K. Varun Reddy and N. Balaram, respectively.
Speaking astatine the meeting, Mr. Mittal said the State had recorded a maximum highest load/ powerfulness request of 17,162 megawatt successful March this twelvemonth and it was expected to transverse 19,000 MW during the coming rabi and summertime seasons. The highest-ever vigor request recorded was 339.17 cardinal units (MU), besides successful March this year.
He explained that the 2 Discoms were adding 103 caller substations and the Transco was enhancing the capableness of powerfulness transformers successful the 181 other precocious transmission substations. In addition, the Southern Discom was adding 8,384 caller organisation transformers and the Northern Discom was arranging 5,280 caller ones to grip the increasing demand.
They were besides taking measures to summation the capableness of powerfulness transformers successful the 33/132 kV and 220/400 kV substations and caller transmission and organisation lines were being added from the EHT and 33/11 kV substations. The automation of organisation transformers and feeders was besides underway.
Further, Genco had taken up overhauling enactment successful each powerfulness procreation units with BTPS and KTPS-IV units nearing completion. The feeder outage absorption strategy implemented successful the Southern Discom had shown bully results and would beryllium replicated astatine each levels, helium added.
Mr. Balaram stated that Singareni would summation ember accumulation from the contiguous 1.8 cardinal tonnes a time to 2.2 cardinal tonnes a time and assured that capable ember would beryllium made disposable for each State thermal powerfulness plants during the rabi and summertime seasons to guarantee that determination were nary proviso disruptions.
Mr. Faruqui stated that nether the ongoing EV infrastructure survey, 3,121 imaginable locations for EV charging stations were identified arsenic of October 25 and it was apt to increase. Vice-Chairman and MD of Telangana Renewable Energy Development Corporation V. Anila besides participated successful the meeting.
