Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs & Information and Broadcasting Shri Arun Jaitley laid the foundation stone of two power sub-stations and dedicated one sub-power station to the people in Delhi today. The 400 kV sub-station of POWERGRID at Rajghat, 220k V substation at Preet Vihar of Delhi Transco Limited and Harsh Vihar substation of Delhi Transco Limited will significantly improve power availability in Delhi.
The function was presided over by Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State(IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy. Shri Maheish Girri and Shri Vijay Goel, both Members of Parliament were present at Rajghat & Preet Vihar while Shri Manoj Kumar Tiwari, Member of Parliament was present at Harsh Vihar. Senior officials of Ministry of Power, Delhi Power Department and CMD POWERGRID were also present at the foundation laying ceremony.
On these occasions, Shri Arun Jaitley appreciated the efforts of Ministry of Power for establishment of these 3 sub-stations for Delhi with the help of POWERGRID which will prove to be a milestone in strengthening of Delhi power scenario and provide 24x7 power supply to its residents
Presiding over the functions, Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State(IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy said that various projects are being implemented by the Government for strengthening the power system in Delhi. After implementation of these schemes Delhi residents will no longer need to depend on their diesel generators and invertors for power supply. He announced that Five Lac LED lights will be installed in Delhi with an approximate cost of Rs.500 Crores. These schemes will also help Delhi in reducing the overall power consumption. He also added that in the coming time Delhi consumers will be able to select their power service provider as per their suitability in terms of services.
These substations will be built with state-of the-art technology and will cater to the power demand especially to Central, East and North Delhi.
Considering the importance of reliable power supply to Delhi, Ministry of Power took the initiative to mitigate the problems in transmission & distribution of electricity it was emphasized that a very strong Inter State Transmission System alongwith 400/220KV Grid Sub-stations in and around Delhi are required to be established to ensure secured transmission network with adequate transformation capacity
In order to facilitate handling of increasing quantum of power with reliability, four nos. of 400/220kV substations along with associated 400kV transmission network under ISTS are being implemented within the periphery of Delhi to import power from various sources outside Delhi. These ISTS (Inter State Transmission System) 400/220 kV substations are planned to be established at Rajghat, Tughlakabad, Karampura and Papankalan by POWERGRID.
Presently many 220 kV s/s of Delhi are being fed from single source, implementation of above scheme shall provide alternate source, which shall improve reliability of power supply. Thus, with the creation of the above four 400kV S/s planned for commissioning by 2016-17, there would be strong infeed around Delhi which can take care and reliably meet the load demand of Delhi.
Besides above, development of intra – state network in Delhi has also been planned and taken up for implementation by DTL for absorption of power in reliable manner. The intra state system planned include 220/ 33 kV GIS s/s at Preet Vihar, Papankalan III, Rajghat , Tughlakabad and Karampura besides reconductoring of existing lines and establishment of new lines by Delhi Transco Limited.
Source:PIB
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