US Consul General Karachi Michael Dodman inaugurating the Power Distribution Centre (PDC) at the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO). PHOTO: NNI
The announcement was made during the inauguration ceremony of the Power Distribution Centre (PDC) at the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO) yesterday.
“Power distribution centres have been set up in all nine distribution companies at a cost of $230 million in the country,” said Dodman. “These centres will give access to real time data of electricity load to managers of the Pakistan’s electricity grid. The programme will also improve the companies’ performance in terms of reduction in losses and improvement in revenues and customer services.”
Dodman added that the load data improvement programme will enable HESCO to monitor the power flow on their grid stations and help overcome unscheduled load-shedding. “Such programmes are providing assistance to Pakistan reform its power sector in order to end the current energy crisis in the country.”
Meanwhile, Hesco Chief Executive Officer Laiq Ahmed Khan said the programme of establishing the PDC will enable the company to control all 70 grid stations and more than 400 feeders will be monitored electronically. “Until now, we have been maintaining the power management record manually,” said Khan.
“This system will help us identify the load on each grid through a main metre installed at each grid station and inform us if any one of them is not functioning within seconds and not hours like earlier. This will also help in reducing unscheduled load-shedding, line losses and theft and, as a result, the programme will improve the company’s performance as well.
The official added that the support, provided by the US, has already helped Hesco increase its efficiency by 70%, through staff training and capacity enhancement.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 6th, 2013.
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Long over due. They should have set up this project earlier on. But better late then never.
Great initiative and well appreciated help by USAID to co operate with the government run agencies to improve the distribution of electricity.