PDD to Set up Sensible Meters in Over 40,000 Distribution Transformers

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Energy Improvement Division (JKPDD) is planning to put in good meters in over 40,000 Distribution Transformers (DTs) within the Kashmir space.

JKPDD Principal Secretary H Rajesh Prasad mentioned, “JKPDD is all set to interchange practically 9,000 DTs which have turned out of date or are out-aged.”

Prasad added, “The division goes to put in good meters in all 40,000 plus DTs functioning within the Kashmir area in order that we’ve a whole chain from feeder meter to DT meter to shopper meter.”

He mentioned that the division goals to measure the vitality proper from the supply to make it extra accountable.

“KPDCL at the moment operates roughly 40,000 Distribution Transformers (DTs).  Moreover, there are proposed plans so as to add 9,000 DTs underneath the RDSS. Amongst these DTs, 10,000 are to have good meters put in underneath the PMDP, whereas the remaining DTs coated underneath RDSS,” reads an official doc.

It additionally states that the first goal of implementing good meters on the DT degree is to allow correct vitality accounting and monitoring.

The Principal Secretary mentioned, “The ten,000 DTs underneath PMDP haven’t been began but as a result of it’s being coated underneath RDSS of which tendering has been completed and set up have been initiated.”—(KNO)