To beat space crunch, discoms install pillar mounted, double-decker power stations in city

Faced with space constraints in many congested pockets of the city, discoms have come up with innovative solutions like pillar mounted and double-decker power substations to augment the power infrastructure, discom officials said. There are many areas in Delhi where discoms are facing challenges in network augmentation, primarily on account of non availability of sufficient space for installing and laying new power infrastructure, they said.

BSES discoms have been exploring all possibilities to find cost-effective, innovative and workable solutions for addressing the issue of space constraints, said officials of the discom. “The discom has commissioned a first-of-its-kind 400 kVA pillar mounted compact sub-station, scalable to 630 kVA, in Vasant Kunj in South Delhi. It takes almost 1/5th the space of a conventional transformer,” said the official.