To beat space crunch discoms instal pillar mounted double-decker power stations in city
New Delhi Oct 24 PTI Faced with space constraints in many congested pockets of the city discoms have come up with innovative solutions like pillar mounted and double-decker power substations to augment the power infrastructure discom officials saidThere are many areas in Delhi where discoms are facing challenges in network augmentation primarily on account of non availability of sufficient space for installing and laying new power infrastructure they saidBSES discoms have been exploring all possibilities to find cost-effective innovative and workable solutions for addressing the issue of space constraints said officials of the discomThe discom has commissioned a first-of-its-kind 400 kVA pillar mounted compact sub-station scalable to 630 kVA in Vasant Kunj in South Delhi Ittakes almost 15th the space of a conventional transformer said the officialThis is the first-of-its-kind pillar mounted transformer to be installed in the national capital The second such pillar mounted transformer is installed in Nehru Place he saidDeveloped in-house over the next few months around 25 such pillar mounted transformers will be installed in several congested areas he saidApart from this BSES is also installing double-decker substations in heavily congested areas It is a 630 KVA substation which also helps to strengthen the power supply in the congested areas Measuring 625 square metres vis–vis 20 square metres for its conventional counterpart it also takes much less space and 14 of them have been installed so far in the city he addedEarlier the BSES had installed Delhis first state-of-the-art packaged Grid or Electronic House Electronic Compacted Switchgear in Krishna Nagar a congested area in East Delhi Incorporating the latest German technology and made by Siemens this is all-in-one plug and play compact packaged Grid takes around 40 percent less space than a conventional gridAvailability of space remains the most viable solution for which discoms have been writing to various stakeholders with some degree of success officials saidEven though space has been made available to the discoms in wide number of areas there are still over 1000-1200 pockets across Delhi where it remains a challenge they added PTI VIT DV DV
New Delhi Oct 24 PTI Faced with space constraints in many congested pockets of the city discoms have come up with innovative solutions like pillar mounted and double-decker power substations to augment the power infrastructure discom officials saidThere are many areas in Delhi where discoms are facing challenges in network augmentation primarily on account of non availability of sufficient space for installing and laying new power infrastructure they saidBSES discoms have been exploring all possibilities to find cost-effective innovative and workable solutions for addressing the issue of space constraints said officials of the discomThe discom has commissioned a first-of-its-kind 400 kVA pillar mounted compact sub-station scalable to 630 kVA in Vasant Kunj in South Delhi Ittakes almost 15th the space of a conventional transformer said the officialThis is the first-of-its-kind pillar mounted transformer to be installed in the national capital The second such pillar mounted transformer is installed in Nehru Place he saidDeveloped in-house over the next few months around 25 such pillar mounted transformers will be installed in several congested areas he saidApart from this BSES is also installing double-decker substations in heavily congested areas It is a 630 KVA substation which also helps to strengthen the power supply in the congested areas Measuring 625 square metres vis–vis 20 square metres for its conventional counterpart it also takes much less space and 14 of them have been installed so far in the city he addedEarlier the BSES had installed Delhis first state-of-the-art packaged Grid or Electronic House Electronic Compacted Switchgear in Krishna Nagar a congested area in East Delhi Incorporating the latest German technology and made by Siemens this is all-in-one plug and play compact packaged Grid takes around 40 percent less space than a conventional gridAvailability of space remains the most viable solution for which discoms have been writing to various stakeholders with some degree of success officials saidEven though space has been made available to the discoms in wide number of areas there are still over 1000-1200 pockets across Delhi where it remains a challenge they added PTI VIT DV DV
