Improving Power Situation - Key Solutions
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