Madhya Pradesh Power Transmission Company has innovated the state's first extra high voltage GIS substation at Indore to provide strength and reliability to the transmission network of Indore metropolis.
The construction of Gas Insulated Switch Gear Substation has been completed & with 50 MVA transformer sub station charged in the densely populated Mahalaxmi Nagar of Indore at an estimated cost of about 36.50 crores. This is the first GIS of Madhya Pradesh connected to the transmission network of Madhya Pradesh Power Transmission Company.
With the commissioning of this substation, the power transmission system in the eastern region of Indore has been strengthened, Indore has got another option of Extra high voltage substation.
Managing Director of Madhya Pradesh Power Transmission Company, Er. Sunil Tiwari said that in view of the increasing demand for electricity in Indore, Madhya Pradesh Power Transmission Company felt the need for construction of additional substations in Indore city.
Due to non availability of sufficient land for construction of conventional substation in dense population like Indore, Madhya Pradesh Power Transmission Company has decided to devlope Gas Insulated Switch Gear Substation(GIS)in Indore. Since this was an innovation of the company, the Principal Secretary Energy Sanjay Dubey, being present himself, saw this arrangement, understood and gave necessary instructions.
Besides taking up less space in construction, there are other advantages as well.
Managing Director Er Sunil Tiwari told that the construction of the GIS substation requires less land than conventional air insulated substations. The budget for the construction of substations with this technology is about two and a half times more than that of conventional substations.
But Madhya Pradesh Power Transmission Company has approved this construction keeping in view the need of Indore, an important city of Madhya Pradesh.
These substations are also known colloquially as "maintenance free" substations due to presence of equipments contacts in gas insulated chambers.