Central transmission utility
Power Grid Corporation of
India Ltd has planned capital
investment of
1 lakh
crore in the ongoing 12th Plan
period. This was announced by
R.N. Nayak, Chairman and Managing
Director, PGCIL, at a recent
press meet in Mumbai. During
FY13, PGCIL will invest
20,000
crore, Nayak said.
The massive investment will go
towards building transmission
infrastructure associated with the
large number of power generation
plants coming up in the central
sector, ultra mega power projects
and by independent power producers.
PGCIL will also carry our
grid strengthening activities.
Currently, PGCIL operates
about 93,000 ckm (circuit km) of
transmission lines along with 151
substations having transformation
capacity of more than
1,24,500 MVA. With the use of
state-of-the-art preventive maintenance
techniques, average
availability of transmission system
during FY12 was maintained
at 99.94 per cent. PGCIL also
has 32 remotely-operated substations,
apart from six unmanned
substations.
Nayak also stated that the
National Transmission Asset
Management Centre had started
implementation and maintenance
service hubs have been
established. Meanwhile, interregional
power transmission capacity
of 5,600 MW was added during
FY12 taking the cumulative
interregional transmission capacity
of the National Grid to about
28,000 MW.