The Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam limited (HVPNl) met the peak summer demand, which touched an all-time high of 9,262MW on July 22, this year.
This came out in the 178th meeting of the Board of Directors of HVPNl where they applauded the significant contribution made by the HVPNl towards building strong transmission infrastructure to provide reliable power to the consumers.
A spokesman of HVPNl said that during the last 16 months, HVPNl had added 17 new sub-stations, besides carrying out capacity augmentation of existing 59 sub-stations. A total of 2,616 MVA capacity has been added at a cost of about Rs 332 crore.
He said the Board of Directors appreciated the continuous efforts being made towards maintaining the transmission system, as a result of which the key parameter of Transmission System Availability touched 99.52 per cent in August, 2016 as against 98.29 per cent in 2015-16.
Similarly, Intra State Transmission losses dropped significantly to 2.16 per cent by the end of July, 2016. These losses were around 2.698 per cent in 2015-16. In the current financial year, the transformer damage rate also decreased to 0.48 per cent up to July, 2016 as against 1.39 per cent in the corresponding period last year, he added.
The Board of Directors also emphasised that the State should have a robust and reliable transmission system and continuous efforts should be made in this direction by the utility in future also.