New project to change face of power supply in Kochi.

The Rs. 355-crore Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (R-APDRP), work on which has recently been launched, will change the face of electricity supply in the city and its suburbs. It will bring in anywhere-bill-payment system for all categories of consumers and automatic meter reading for high-tension consumers.

Sources in the Kerala State Electricity Board Limited said recently that Part A of the project, costing approximately Rs. 60 crore, envisaged deploying the latest information technology tools, including establishment of supervisory control and data acquisition to help Board's engineers to keep track of power supply real-time and spot trouble online.

Bulk of the money under the R-APDRP will be deployed in establishing basic infrastructure for power distribution. It includes replacing 4.61 lakh faulty and old meters, laying over 300 km of underground cable, establishing 346 new transformers and conversion of over 300 km of single-phase lines into three-phase lines.


THE HINDU