Haryana Bijli Nigam to set up 59 substations

The Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) has decided to implement its biggest ever annual plan to set up 59 substations of 33 kv and augment the capacity of several existing substations at a cost of Rs 275 crore within its jurisdiction and ntroduce a latest technology to set up unmanned substations during the financial year 2008-09.

While stating this on Wednesday, a spokesperson of DHBVN said that the jurisdiction of DHBVN comprised districts of Sirsa, Fatehabad, Hisar, Bhiwani, Mahendragarh, Rewari, Gurgaon, Mewat and Faridabad.

He said this project would include erection of new 33 kv lines, bifurcation and trifurcation of overloaded feeders, segregation of rural agriculture and domestic load and installation of new distribution transformers. With the completion of this work, thecapacity of transmission and distribution system would be augmented by about 615 mva. While increasing automation in its operational activities, the DHBVN has decided to construct new unmanned substations of latest technology. The substations would be operated and controlled remotely from a central control room in Hisar.

He said in unmanned substations, there would be no requirement of conventional switch house buildings thus reducing construction cost on civil works and the substations would require smaller plots of land. Application of latest information technology would connect the substations to the computers in the central control room at Hisar for operation and control. The transformers to be set up at the substations would be of comparatively higher capacity of 10 mva or 8 mva each.

The spokesperson said the DHBVN has commissioned 15 new substations of 33 kv in its jurisdiction, while 22 other new substations of this level are under construction. Most of these substations are nearing commissioning. During last month, it had commissioned eight substations of 33 kv level at villages namely Pataudi, Jamal, Kari Dharni, Chhapar, Singhani, Siswala, Bara Gudha and Bass to ensure quality power supply to the consumers of respective areas.