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The Haryana Power Distribition Corporations (Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam and Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam) earned highest-ever revenue of over Rs.1450 crore, in the month of October, 2013 registering an increase by about 60% in last one year.
This was stated by the principal secretary (power), Haryana, Devender Singh in his address in a conference of all officers of the operations wings of the Haryana discoms held today.
Devender Singh said that the reasons of sharp increase in revenue realisation have been the increased power supply and more efforts made by the officials of the nigams. He said that the component of employee cost in the total cost of power supply in Haryana was lowest in India. The employee cost in Haryana is merely 42 to 45 paise per unit.
Devender Singh said that there are tremendous possibilities to reduce the aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses and considerable savings can be made simply by reducing these losses. High technical losses in the system are primarily due to inadequate system improvement works, unplanned extensions of the distribution lines, overloading of the system elements like transformers and conductors and lack of adequate reactive power support. The commercial losses are mainly due to under billing, accumulation of reading, non-payment of bills, theft & pilferages.
He said that to reduce technical losses considerably, it should be ensured that no line, transformer or sub-station has a load of more than 70% of the capacity. Augmentation and improvement plans should be prepared and submitted for approval as and when load touches 70% of capacity. IT-based analytics, energy audit, load balancing, electronic downloadable meters with AMR facilities, proper energy accounting & auditing, improved billing & collection efficiency and focused enforcement drives are some of the steps required to be taken with more firmness for reduction of losses.
He said that to overcome the mismatch between and transmission and distribution system, the discoms have prepared a three-year development plan under which the capacity of the system will be augmented by adding new sub-stations and net work of lines and segregating and maintaining the overloaded feeders.
