Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company limited, a
wholly owned corporate entity under the Maharashtra Government, was
incorporated under the Companies Act, in June, 2005 after restructuring the
erstwhile Maharashtra State Electricity Board to transmit electricity from its
point of Generation to its point of Distribution.
It owns and operates most of Maharashtra’s Electric Power
Transmission System. MSETCL operates a transmission network of 39871 Circuit KM
of transmission lines and 559 EHV Substations with 89178 MVA transformation
capacity. This infrastructure constitutes most of the inter regional as well as
intra regional electric power transmission system in the State. Today, MSETCL
is the largest state transmission utility in the country.
The company also has the distinction of being the only power
utility in the state sector to own HVDC lines. The Company operates a 752 km
long, 1500 MW, 500 KV bi-polar HVDC line from Chandrapur to Padghe. This has
been marked as a major success as electric power is generated in east
Maharashtra, due to easy availability of coal, whereas the bulk use of power is
in the western part of Maharashtra in and around cities such as Mumbai, Pune
and Nashik. The power losses are very low in the HVDC line. As a result, the
power received at Padghe is practically the same as what is injected at
Chandrapur.
The load dispatch center is the nerve centre for the operation,
monitoring and control of the power system. The SLDC Kalwa near Mumbai is fully
computerized and has ultra modern facilities. Mahatransco also has a Load Dispatch
center at Ambazari near Nagpur. To keep up with the increase in Power
generation in the next 5 years, Mahatransco also has planned to establish a
robust transmission network. It is implementing an ambitious expansion plan
over the period 2011-12 to 2015-16, to meet the evacuation and grid
strengthening needs of the future. The adoption of predictive maintenance
practices has helped the company to reduce interruptions and improve the
network’s availability to 99.70%.
At MSETCL, thrust is given on innovation for value creation and
cost optimization. It has installed ABT metering at 530 Sub-stations for energy
accounting purposes and implementation of FBSM. The ERP system is fully
integrated and being put into use, where functions of key departments are on
line. To set up a comprehensive communication network by utilizing existing
infrastructure, an Optic Fibre communication system of about 2801 Km is being
installed. It has also experimented with unmanned remotely controlled
substations at two locations and GIS substations at Bhandup and Hinjewadi. To
raise funds from the market for equity capital/ capex schemes and to reduce its
interest burden, MSETCL is readying itself for the launch of an IPO. It has
undertaken an ambitious task of establishment of a 765 KV substation at
Aurangabad. The State Load Dispatch Centre (SLDC) at Kalwa and Ambazari are
being renovated and modernized with 140 Nos. of SCADA – RTU.
Besides continual technical up-gradation, the company lays
emphasis on imbibing required skills in its people and therefore it has
invested in creating training infrastructure. The Company has adopted the
National Training Policy and has established fully equipped Training Centres at
7 different locations which are attached to respective Zonal offices. These
centres impart training on Technical, Safety and Soft skills which are guided
and monitored by the HR/Training Department. It has recently established a
Technical Training Centre - the Power System Learning Centre - at Aurangabad
where employees are trained on various power system protection and equipment testing.
Recently the Company has bagged “Special Commendation National Award 2011” for
Innovative Training Practices from the Indian Society for Training and
Development, New Delhi.
We at MSETCL are committed to do our best to achieve the national
goal of power to all.