Nishikant Khajuria
JAMMU, May 1: This summer, Jammu is likely to get a big relief from unscheduled power cuts as the ongoing work on enhancing capacity of Sarna-Hiranagar-Gladni transmission line is all set to be completed in next few days.
The capacity of 220 KV Sarna-Hiranagar section and 220 KV Hiranagar -Gladni section is being enhanced by carrying out Loop In Loop Out (LILO) of the existing transmission line which is presently on Zebra conductors.
With LILO of 220 KV Sarna-Gladni line at 400/220 KV, 630 MVA Jatwal Grid Station, Jammu can avail 200 MWs of additional power, official sources informed the Excelsior while adding that the ongoing work is near completion and the transmission line with enhanced capacity is all set to be commissioned by the mid of May.
With the enhanced capacity of Sarna-Hiranagar-Gladni transmission line, people of Jammu, Kathua and Samba are likely to get a major relief from unscheduled power cuts, which are forced during the peak hours of summer, sources further said.
Even as LILO of 220 KV Hiranagar-Sarna was agreed and started around an year ago by the Powergrid under Power System Planning of Northern Region, the State Power Development Department had requested Powergrid in October last also to carry out LILO of 220 KV Gladni-Hiranagar section at Jatwal (Samba) on priority, sources informed.
The PDD request for extending the LILO was made in view of the fact that LILO of 220 KV SC Gladni-Hiranagar section at Samba (Jatwal) has more benefit, instead of LILO of 220 KV S/C Sarna-Hiranagar section of 220 KV S/C Sarna-Hiranagar-Gladni ISTS line, official sources explained.
Further, the congestion is more on Gladni-Hiranagar section, which needed to be removed and therefore the PDD told the Powergrid that LILO of only Sarna – Hiranagar at Samba would have no benefit as the congestion would not be removed without extending the LILO.
In the wake of this request, the Powergrid in its 37th meeting of the Standing Committee of Power System Planning of Northern Region, agreed to extend the LILO of Sarna -Hiranagar at Jatwal with LILO of Gladni -Hiranagar at Jatwal.
LILO of 220 KV Hiranagar -Sarna S/C line at Samba (PG) was agreed during the 32nd and 33rd meeting of the Standing Committee of Power System Planning of Northern Region and the line was under advanced stage of implementation by Powergrid with commissioning scheduled in March, 2016 when State PDD had requested Powergrid to carry out LILO of Gladni -Hiranagar section at Jatwal.
With the LILO of Sarna-Hiranagar-Gladni transmission line, Grid Station at Gladni will be able to get power from Sarna also while at present it has been getting power only from Salal. Thereafter, the Gladni Grid Station will have 630 MVA additional power available thus helping the PDD to reduce the curtailment and power cuts.
“The problem for the last several years is going to end as two sources will be available now for getting power supply on this line and thus PDD will be in a position to provide connections to the new industries besides reducing the power cuts,” said Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh, who holds the portfolio of Power in State Government.
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