The constant real estate development and the creation of new industrial estates have created an ever-growing demand for electricity in the city. The peak demand for the city has touched around 3,100 mega watt (MW) and the maximum consumption per day now stands at 60.07 million units (MU).
The mismatch between the growth of the population and power infrastructure development presents a stark picture mainly on the outskirts of the city. The growth of towering flats and apartment complexes has marked a burgeoning rise in population, and vice versa. Problems such as low voltage, frequent tripping of transformers and snapping of the overhead cable network plague residents on the peripheries of the city are facing.
A senior official of the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) said that in a city whose power consumption is almost one-fifth of the total consumption of the state (300 MU), the electricity department has been regularly planning infrastructure development works. He said providing uninterrupted power supply requires infrastructure development on various fronts including construction of substations of different capacities, installing underground power lines, setting up new transformers and establishing pillar boxes.
The official, providing details of the several works, said 19 new substations, installation of new power lines, up gradation of substations, replacement of distribution transformers with Ring Main Units (RMUs), modernisation of pillar boxes and conversion of overhead power lines (both high tension and low tension) with underground electricity network has been planned. A Tangedco official in South Chennai said the commissioning of 400 KV in Ottiyambakkam near Siruseri would help in streamlining power supply for the information technology corridor. Transmission power lines are also getting a big push with work proceeding on installing high tension lines for a length of 117.82 kms being executed at a cost of ₹301.61 crore.
Also, transmission lines for linking 33 KV substations and 11 KV substations are going for a total length of almost 200 km. The work is being taken up at a cost of ₹109 crore.
A Tangedco official involved in installing underground cable laying work between Nandambakkam and Mugallivakkam to link up the Porur substation pointed out the cable laying work began a fortnight ago and is being carried out on the road margin of Mount-Poonamallee Road.
Apart from the mega infrastructure development work, Tangedco has taken up improvement work, replacement of 13,810 distribution transformers with new automated 11-KV RMUs at a cost of ₹1,819 crore, modernisation of 33,225 pillar boxes at a cost of ₹ 389 crore and conversion of 35,000 kms of existing over head lines into under ground cables network at a cost of ₹2,567 crores in the extended area of Chennai city.
The mismatch between the growth of the population and power infrastructure development presents a stark picture mainly on the outskirts of the city. The growth of towering flats and apartment complexes has marked a burgeoning rise in population, and vice versa. Problems such as low voltage, frequent tripping of transformers and snapping of the overhead cable network plague residents on the peripheries of the city are facing.
A senior official of the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) said that in a city whose power consumption is almost one-fifth of the total consumption of the state (300 MU), the electricity department has been regularly planning infrastructure development works. He said providing uninterrupted power supply requires infrastructure development on various fronts including construction of substations of different capacities, installing underground power lines, setting up new transformers and establishing pillar boxes.
The official, providing details of the several works, said 19 new substations, installation of new power lines, up gradation of substations, replacement of distribution transformers with Ring Main Units (RMUs), modernisation of pillar boxes and conversion of overhead power lines (both high tension and low tension) with underground electricity network has been planned. A Tangedco official in South Chennai said the commissioning of 400 KV in Ottiyambakkam near Siruseri would help in streamlining power supply for the information technology corridor. Transmission power lines are also getting a big push with work proceeding on installing high tension lines for a length of 117.82 kms being executed at a cost of ₹301.61 crore.
Also, transmission lines for linking 33 KV substations and 11 KV substations are going for a total length of almost 200 km. The work is being taken up at a cost of ₹109 crore.
A Tangedco official involved in installing underground cable laying work between Nandambakkam and Mugallivakkam to link up the Porur substation pointed out the cable laying work began a fortnight ago and is being carried out on the road margin of Mount-Poonamallee Road.
Apart from the mega infrastructure development work, Tangedco has taken up improvement work, replacement of 13,810 distribution transformers with new automated 11-KV RMUs at a cost of ₹1,819 crore, modernisation of 33,225 pillar boxes at a cost of ₹ 389 crore and conversion of 35,000 kms of existing over head lines into under ground cables network at a cost of ₹2,567 crores in the extended area of Chennai city.