INSTALLATION OF POWER SUPPLIED BY APSPDCL TO THE URBAN AND RURAL DOMESTIC CONSUMERS IN GUNTUR DISTRICT

Abstract

An attempt is made in this paper to discuss about the power installation, supply and quality. It mostly covered the installation of electricity service in the house, time gap between the application and actual installation, problems in obtaining connection, daily availability of power, power cut, alternative source of power, opinion on quality of power supplied, fault metering, damage of electrical appliances etc. The study revealed that the installation of electricity in urban areas is started significantly in early years when compared with rural area. The urban respondents are getting electricity service a bite earlier than rural respondents. The urban respondents have more no. of hours of power per day then rural respondents. About 54.0 per cent of the urban respondents are possessing alternative source of power supply and 95.3 per cent of the rural respondents are not having any source of power supply. The APSPDCL are attending the supply faults within a day or 2 to 3 days in both urban and rural categories. Both respondents opined that power supply is having voltage problem and fluctuations in power. It is a healthy sign that majority of 73.6 per cent of the total respondents opined for non-damage of electrical appliance. But still few respondents suffered with poor quality of power. Damage and loss of electricity appliances due to poor quality of power supply is more in urban respondents when compared to rural respondents. The suffering of commercial consumers like education institutions, shopping mall and offices due to poor quality of powers always has a financial impact on their business, whereas the domestic consumers at the same time do suffer but may not have business loss.