Even as Delhi’s power demand touched 6,526 MW this summer, the power major BSES discoms met with the unprecedented power demand with the help of its massive network and by investing in transformation capacity and infrastructure.
The discoms have also taken several measures to ensure reliable power supply ranging from preventive maintenance, strengthening of call the centre, load balancing at the sub-stations, deployment of additional manpower, setting up of dedicated team for monitoring of complaints, deployment of mobile transformers, deployment of quick reaction teams to tackle exigencies, and establishment of war room to review complaints and their quick resolution etc.
A BSES official said that the discoms has invested around Rs 700 crore (BRPl Rs 448 crore, BYPl Rs 252 crore during the financial year 2016-2017 to strengthen the infrastructure and adding a transformation capacity of around 600 MVA.
“During the year, BSES discoms also installed over 670 transformers and augmented capacity of scores of others to boost the network capacity. Additionally, BSES is also working in tandem with generation companies and Delhi Transco ltd to ensure that the entire generation, transmission and distribution system is aligned to meet the summer load,” he said.
Spread over an area of around 950 square kms, BSES discoms cater to the power needs of two-third of national Capital and around 40 lakh customers across South, West, East and Central Delhi. The peak power demand in BRPl and BYPl areas clocked over 2700 MW and 1457 MW respectively, the official added.