Power/Electricity Supply - Inputs on Root Causes
Dear Friends,
Based on your inputs, below is a summary of the Key Issues highlighted by you on the state of Power/Electricity Supply in India
Please review them and help identify Root Causes for some of these issues.
Once we are done with that we will have a discussion on Solutions followed by a Whitepaper submission on the subject to Ministry of Power and other associated Government departments.
Thanks for your inputs!
Rajendra Pratap Gupta
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Power Situation in India – Key Issues
1. Defective Meters
2. Inflated bills
3. Frequent power cuts
4. Constant voltage fluctuation
5. Insufficient production of electricity
6. To many overhead wires outside houses
7. The transformers frequently fail or trip and cause power failure
8. Long queues for bill payment
9. Bills don’t come on time
10. The time gap between receiving the bill and last due date is quite narrow
11. Unnecessary procedural formalities and documentations for getting a new connection
12. Power condition in villages even worse
13. Cheap/regular supply of electricity for agriculture purposes not available
14. Power theft is very common
15. Customer service is very bad
16. A state might have surplus power but a neighboring state which has deficit is unable to use it
17. Old power grids lead to inefficient supply
18. Major corruption in administration
19. Heavy dependence on thermal power plants for power generation
20. Inefficient use of electricity by consumers more
Based on your inputs, below is a summary of the Key Issues highlighted by you on the state of Power/Electricity Supply in India
Please review them and help identify Root Causes for some of these issues.
Once we are done with that we will have a discussion on Solutions followed by a Whitepaper submission on the subject to Ministry of Power and other associated Government departments.
Thanks for your inputs!
Rajendra Pratap Gupta
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Power Situation in India – Key Issues
1. Defective Meters
2. Inflated bills
3. Frequent power cuts
4. Constant voltage fluctuation
5. Insufficient production of electricity
6. To many overhead wires outside houses
7. The transformers frequently fail or trip and cause power failure
8. Long queues for bill payment
9. Bills don’t come on time
10. The time gap between receiving the bill and last due date is quite narrow
11. Unnecessary procedural formalities and documentations for getting a new connection
12. Power condition in villages even worse
13. Cheap/regular supply of electricity for agriculture purposes not available
14. Power theft is very common
15. Customer service is very bad
16. A state might have surplus power but a neighboring state which has deficit is unable to use it
17. Old power grids lead to inefficient supply
18. Major corruption in administration
19. Heavy dependence on thermal power plants for power generation
20. Inefficient use of electricity by consumers more
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A country wide survey should be conducted for errecting Wind Mills along east and west coast, hillstations all over the country for generation of power using power of wind from nature. more
Nov 01
Black Money: - There is no point in entrusting the Income Tax Department with the work of bringing out black money inside inside. If they really wanted it they could have done it right from the beginning i.e., 67 years back. Instead of bringing it out to the benefit of the country, they preferred to share it with the originators. The ideal thing to do now is close down the Department along with all other tax departments, give them VRS benefit and introduce Bank Transaction Tax on all bank credits at a nominal rate of only 2% and channel all transactions above Rs.2000 through banks this will increase the tax. Give a chance to all black money holders to deposit it in banks and assure that no action will be taken against them and only BTT will be charges. Visit Arthakranti site for full details: - http://www.arthakranti.org/ more
Oct 31
Not enough production of solar panels in India. It should be mass produced, especially the cheaper thin-film type (see First solar company's products, for example) and made cheaper, subsidized, tax break should be given and every possible way spread the use. For industries and homes, for street lighting and businesses. Oil/coal companies may resist, but if in the USA the oil companies are changing and joining in, we can change too. India can produce 100 times more energy using solar than the national need. I would say that's the way to go. May be a few Hydopower/nuclear as a back up should run. But oil/coal can be eliminated in a few years. http://news.yahoo.com/big-utilities-pushing-booming-home-solar-market-112015170--finance.html more
Oct 31
Much can be done away by properly maintaining and its proper use with equal distribution, forgotten basic rules of safety by use of correct size fuses / MCBs , there can not be fire loss due to short circuits, INDIAN STANDARDS with out proper certifications and no such standards of universal world in our country more
Oct 30
1. Assure sufficient profit for the company so that new projects and replacements for the old one is carried out. 2. Eliminate loss in transmission caused by poor quality of material and large scale theft. 3. Management of the company should be cost audited and controlled on a regular basis. more
Oct 30
