Vol. 2, Issue 1, Jan-Feb 2012, pp.051-054
Rural Electrification with Loss Minimization Through different Strategies for Sustainable Infrastructure Development
Krishnakant Gautam*, Vijay Bhuria**
*PG student, **Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering, Madhav Institute of Technology & Science, Gwalior (M.P)
Abstract—The problem of electricity supply with minimum possible losses is the challenge to countries like India where 72% of human resources inhabited in 600 villages. Electricity on one hand is identified as key component of socio economic development, at the same time it is also identified as a commodity to be traded and large scale restructuring of power system is being taken up with vertical unbundling. Rural electrification is an important component of Integrated Rural Development. Rural electricity distribution is costly due to dispersed distribution of loads in spread over areas. The problem needs to be addressed from several view points as social, economic, and technological advancements. This paper emphasizes on development of new techniques for minimal power loss in electricity distribution system .The proposed high voltage distribution system being cost effective on one hand is equally applicable to urban areas as well. Index Terms— High voltage, line losses, feeder,
I Introduction
Expansion of electrification and electricity services are vital to both the economic and social development of India. The current state of electricity services in most of the states of India is worse than ever. Some of the signs of this crisis are severe shortcomings in a) Access to electricity for rural and urban poor,
b) Generation capacity that cannot meet peak demand and c) Reliability of supply, in terms of predictability of outages and quality of power supply. According to National statistics,
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