Power quality: USAID helps improve monitoring

The equipment will be used by DISCO engineers to record pre and post LT capacitor installation measurements.

ISLAMABAD: The US Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Power Distribution Programme handed over power quality monitoring (PQM) devices, including power analyzers and GPS receivers, to all nine power distribution companies (DISCOs) of Pakistan today. The equipment will be used by DISCO engineers to record pre and post Low-Tension (LT) capacitor installation measurements, assess the right size of LT capacitors to be installed at tube-well motors, and determine the benefits. “Power quality monitoring is an essential service utilities need to perform for better power equipment and network management,” said Shafiqur Rehman, P&E lead of the Power Distribution Programme, during the workshop. “The USAID Power Distribution Programme is assisting DISCOs improve their planning and engineering.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 5^th, 2012.