Hy Power Utilities supplies record electricity to consumers

Chandigarh, Oct 11 (UNI) The Haryana Power Utilities has been able to meet the highest ever demand of 4224 MW electricity due to increased reliability in the transmission and distribution system during this financial year.

The Utilities supplied a record 850.66 lakh units of electricity to its consumers during this period.

While stating this here today, a spokesman of the Utilities said that as per Central Electricity Regulatory Commission calculative formulas, the reliability had been 99.34 per cent, 99.44 per cent, 99.66 per cent, 99.68 per cent and 99.75 per cent in the months of April, May, June, July and August respectively.

He said that the Utilities had set up ten new sub stations, augmented the capacity of 26 existing substations and laid 210 kilometre long transmission lines at a cost of Rs 107.16 crore from April to September this year, to further strengthen the transmission and distribution network of power.

The spokesman also said that the energisation of a 220 KV substation Bahadurgarh and a 132 KV substation at Modern Industrial Estate Bahadurgarh had given a boost to power transmission system in upcoming industrial towns as well as a major part of Rohtak and Jhajjar districts. Similarly, the construction of 132 KV substation at Loharu and 33 KV substations at Nalipar, Dablana and Kahnaur had started catering the needs of power of domestic and other categories of consumers.

He said that the Power Utilities had also planned to construct 111 new substations and augment existing capacity of 77 substations at an estimated cost of Rs 891 crore. The work had been initiated and about one third of these substations and would be completed within the next 18-24 months.

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