Improving Power Situation - Key Solutions
Dear Friends:
Below are the Root Causes as identified by you on the State of Power in India.
Please review them and help identify Solutions that will address these Root Causes to improve the State of Power in India.
Post this, we will put the Whitepaper together and submit it for Government action.
Thanks for your participation!
Rajendra Pratap Gupta
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Power/Electricity Supply - Inputs on Root Causes
1. Electricity meters are built on old technological platforms
2. Transformers are not strong enough to bear the increasing load
3. Demand in the peak season is more than what the states can produce
4. Old transmission lines and infrastructure which are unable to bear increased load
5. Poor maintenance of power line
6. Large scale corruption at all levels
7. Inefficient and uneducated staff
8. Unnecessary procedural formalities and documentations for getting a new connection
9. Paying electricity bill is not possible online
10. Staff working there is inefficient
11. No major penalties on power theft
12. Lack of understanding between the states to share the excess production of electricity
13. The department itself is not customer centric
14. No focus on research and development of alternate sources of energy
15. Consumers tend to think ‘we are ready to pay for what we use’ and hence use electricity inefficiently
16. Politicians influence the working of Discoms
17. Lack of technological upgradation more
Below are the Root Causes as identified by you on the State of Power in India.
Please review them and help identify Solutions that will address these Root Causes to improve the State of Power in India.
Post this, we will put the Whitepaper together and submit it for Government action.
Thanks for your participation!
Rajendra Pratap Gupta
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Power/Electricity Supply - Inputs on Root Causes
1. Electricity meters are built on old technological platforms
2. Transformers are not strong enough to bear the increasing load
3. Demand in the peak season is more than what the states can produce
4. Old transmission lines and infrastructure which are unable to bear increased load
5. Poor maintenance of power line
6. Large scale corruption at all levels
7. Inefficient and uneducated staff
8. Unnecessary procedural formalities and documentations for getting a new connection
9. Paying electricity bill is not possible online
10. Staff working there is inefficient
11. No major penalties on power theft
12. Lack of understanding between the states to share the excess production of electricity
13. The department itself is not customer centric
14. No focus on research and development of alternate sources of energy
15. Consumers tend to think ‘we are ready to pay for what we use’ and hence use electricity inefficiently
16. Politicians influence the working of Discoms
17. Lack of technological upgradation more
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Considering the known inefficiency of the govt/public sector, the real answer is to privatize most services. An enterprise run as a proper business activity will have to work if it is to survive. Government's contribution should generally be confined to two areas only: fair pricing and prevention of unlawful pilfering more
Nov 20
by conducting energy auditing in the factories by government agencies wastage of energy can be stopped a unit saved is two units generated more
Nov 18
Develop mini wind mills in everty home with only domestiv meters,if any officer deny to provide domesdtic meters must be fined.(if this is a residential homes) Maheshjani shivshiva.webs.com more
Nov 16
there is no maintenance nor proper utilisation of electricity and above all no discipline which must be as per limited use by one & all, after all have equal rights in building the nation one such example that we are not to use motor on water line but not a single drop comes without its use, that means it is unnecessary use of eletricity and no government sees that which can be avoided 2nd one we are in the habit of switching on but do not put off like that to save it lastly maximum use of day light must be done and old saying forgot that early to bed and early to rise makes us healthy wealthy & wise, like honesty is the best policy only for writings in the books only JAY HIND more
Nov 13
The Netherlands puts solar panels on an entire bike path - http://www.vox.com/2014/11/11/7193737/solar-power-bike-path-netherlands-solaroad Netherlands get half as much sun as we do, population density is also high, but it is quite advanced in many ways. Maybe we can learn a thing or two from them. more
Nov 12
