Three-phase power supplyto rural units on the cards
- | Thursday | 20th April, 2017
The government of Andhra Pradesh is contemplating extending three-phase power supply to rural industries by segregating feeders at an approximate cost of ?4,000 crore, thereby promote micro and cottage industries in a big way. Reliability indexThe reliability index of the power supply has also improved significantly due to the prompt monitoring of interruptions using the System Average Interruption Duration and System Average Interruption Frequency Indices, Mr. Jain said. Principal Secretary (Energy and I&I) Ajay Jain said that the utilities were fully geared up to meet the growing power demand and have successfully supplied 55, 610 Million Units (MU) in FY 2016-17, which was 11% higher than the energy supplied in 2015-16. Ambitious plans: The ?4,000-crore project is to promote micro and cottage industries in the State. The meeting was attended by AP-Genco MD and AP-Transco CMD K. Vijayanand, Advisor to Energy Department, K. Ranganatham and CMDs of eastern and southern discoms M.M.
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