No more power shock for Yelahanka Industries
BENGALURU: A number of hightension industrial electricity consumers such as Federal Mogul, Manyata Tech Park and the Wheel & Axle Plant in Bengaluru North can heave a sigh of relief as they are now set to get quality supply of electricity round the clock with KPTCL, the transmission utility, stepping up its transmission infrastructure.
What was thought near impossible in the past in view of the congestion all around, the utility has built modern 220-66 kV multi-circuit multi-voltage (MCMV) line using the existing crippled corridor by temporarily using the Swedish technology of covered conductors.
The Swedish technology helped the utility to ensure power supply even as it undertook a major transmission network overhaul in the Yelahanka region off the international airport road. With the project successfully completed, the narrow corridor that was transporting 70 MW of power -far below the demand from consumers -can now carry a peak load of 240 MW . Earlier, he utility had to supply power from ar-flung stations incurring huge supply losses and costs.
The commissioning of the new transmission infrastructure has brought to life the 220 Kv Yelahanka power station, which was ready mid 2012, but could not be used as it was not getting input power for want of a source line. This station will now supply power to a number of highprofile consumers such as Manyata Tech Park, Grindwell Norton and Bell Ceramics which were earlier getting their supplies from Hoskote, and Federal Mogul, which was receiving its power from the Peenya station. The station will power supply to Sahakaranagar as well.
“The shifting of the source of supply to Yelahanka from Peenya, Hoskote and Doddaballapur substations has reduced energy loss by about 31 million units (MUs) a year.This means the shifting alone has resulted in a saving of `16.41 crore (at `5.35 per unit) a year to Bescom (the city’s distribution utility)” said KPTCL director (transmission) S Sumanth who oversaw the project implementation.
Read full article: Economic Times
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