Report of Indian Institute of Public Administration ... - Ministry of Power

3.3.2 Availability of Transmission Network
State Reports (Vol.-III)
Study on `Impact of Restructuring of SEBs’
There has been an increase in the transmission system availability from 97.59 per cent
in 2000-01 to 99.53 per cent in 2003-04. The transmission system availability
remained at 99.18 per cent in 2004-05. Appreciable level of transmission availability
is also on account of very low failure rate of power transformers (about 3% during the
period 1996-97 to 2002-03 and no failure was observed during the years 2003-04 and
2004-05).
100.0
99.5
99.0
98.5
98.0
97.5
97.0
96.5
97.59
Availability of the Transmission Systems (%)
98.2
4.34
98.75
99.53
99.18
2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05
(Source: MPTRANSCO)
3.4. CAPITAL INVESTMENTS IN THE TRANSMISSION SECTOR
The investments in the transmission sector had picked up in 2003-04. The investment
grew by almost 300 per cent to Rs 130 crore in 2003-04 from Rs 46.35 crore in 2000-
01 for new transmission works and ten-fold for strengthening of transmission system
from Rs 27 crore in 2001-02 to Rs 264 crore in 2004-05.
Particulars
New
transmission
works
Investments in Transmission Sector: Post Restructuring
1997
-98
1998
-99
1999-
2000
2000
-01
2001
-02
2002
-03
2003
04
(Rs crore)
2004
-05
74.16 24.90 28.66 46.35 25.78 60.67 130.20 95.95
Strengthening of
transmission
system
43.74 18.02 16.27 8.52 27.19 76.59 264.64 93.44
Total 117.90 42.92 44.93 54.87 52.97 137.26 394.84 189.39
(Source: MPTRANSCO)
From the year 1998-99 to 2001-02 the level of investment made towards new capacity