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The Tamil Nadu Power Distribution Corporation Limited (TNPDCL), having travel nether occurrence for powerfulness disruptions during the past week aft the metropolis touched its highest powerfulness request of 5,014 megawatt (MW) connected June 8, has planned to tackle the contented by improving the organisation web successful a large way.
A elder TNPDCL authoritative said the powerfulness disruptions contented was not astir powerfulness supply, alternatively deficiencies successful organisation web successful immoderate localities. Chairman and Managing Director J. Radhakrishnan has planned to amended the organisation web successful the metropolis successful 2 ways — expediting ongoing projects and taking up caller ones to regenerate bequest assets and conscionable aboriginal request growth.
Officials volition continuously show the assorted distribution network projects, including the 400-kilovolt (KV) root connectivity to Taramani and Guindy and creating further powerfulness sources in Manali and Pulianthope, which are places identified arsenic thickly populated areas. Officials person besides been directed to accelerated way ongoing substation works being executed successful the city.
With respective substation projects successful the metropolis presently astatine the 75%–95% completion stage, the works volition beryllium completed earlier summertime adjacent year. As portion of substation work, dedicated task monitoring teams person been appointed to resoluteness issues regarding onshore acquisition and approvals, monthly reappraisal gathering betwixt transmission, and organisation officials and ample procurement of electrical equipment.
Twenty substations person been identified arsenic being successful request of further root arrangements including astatine Usman Road successful T. Nagar, West Mambalam, Koyambedu, East Mogappair, Karambakkam, Red Hills, Iyyappanthangal, Gandhi Nagar successful Adyar, Chitlapakkam, Injambakkam, and Kottivakkam.
Officials person besides mapped places for adding powerfulness capableness successful Sholinganallur connected Rajiv Gandhi Salai, Chitlapakkam, Hasthinapuram, Madipakkam, Akkarai, Kodungaiyur, Vyasarpadi, Ambattur, Tiruverkaddu, Ennore, Madhavaram, and Thiruporur.
A ₹59.52-crore task to laic underground powerfulness cables for an estimated region of 288 kilometres volition beryllium sanctioned and completed successful a time-bound manner. Similar projects person besides been planned to augment powerfulness sources successful Gummidipoondi, Irungattukottai, Oragadum, Tiruvallur, Tiruttani, and Tiruvalangadu.
S. Ramesh, a nonmigratory of multi-storey flat Purvankara successful Medavakkam, urged the energy section officials to instrumentality up the operation of a substation adjacent the apartments, for which a vacant onshore had already been allotted.
