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BSES brings down loss levels

Staff Reporter

Claims to have achieved a new high over past one year

NEW DELHI: Power distribution company BSES claims to have accomplished a record in loss reduction over the past one year. Having reduced the Aggregate Technical and Commercial losses by 47.2 per cent in the past five and a half years of its operation here, the company has managed to bring down the loss levels by 10 per cent in the Capital’s BYPL area in just one year.

According to sources, the company in one financial year from 2006-07 to 2007-08 has managed to reduce its AT&C losses by 10 per cent, a new high. The company also claims that from the time of power privatisation in the Capital in 2002, it has not only achieved its AT&C loss reduction targets but over-achieved them.

“In the past five years and nine months, BRPL and BYPL have reduced AT&C losses by a record 47.2 per cent and 52.8 per cent, respectively. In the BRPL area the AT&C losses were 51.54 per cent which now have come down to 27.18 per cent and in the BYPL area the loss levels have come down from 63.16 per cent to 29.80 per cent,” said an official.

He said since July 2002 BSES had saved a whopping Rs.5,620 crore for the Delhi Government by reducing AT&C losses. Officials said, “BSES has been able to bring about this massive reduction in AT&C losses by deployment and infusion of state-of-the-art technology and power theft reduction.” It has also booked over 85,000 cases of power theft and an electricity theft load of 5.24 lakh kW.

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