VIJAYAWADA: The state government is taking steps to strengthen transmission infrastructure to enable the evacuation of power from the 10,000 megawatts (MW) solar power plants to be commissioned to meet the demand from the nine-hour free agriculture power initiative, Dr YSR Free Agriculture Power Scheme.
The officials said that new transformers in 400 KV substations and construction 200 KV switching stations would be taken up as part of it to ensure supply to farmers on a “permanent basis”. “The power utilities have completed the feeders upgradation work with `1,700 crore on a war footing on the direction of Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. Now, the power utilities are supplying free power to 99 per cent of feeders and 100 per cent of feeders can get free power in the Rabi season,” a statement from the department on Tuesday said quoting an APTRANSCO official.
