ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT, KARAIKAL.
HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT
The emergence of the Electricity Department Karaikal, has taken place on 01-02-1967. Until then the Karaikal Electricity Private Company was in existence since 1935 with the head quarter at Thiruchirapalli. The department started functioning under the overall control of an Asst. Engineer was posted. The Electricity Department of Karaikal then came under the control of Executive Engineer III who had his head quarters at Pondicherry. In 1982 Electricity Department Karaikal, became an independent division with Thiru G.Krishnamoorthy as the head of office.
First
head of office : Thiru G.
Krishnamoorthy, Executive Engineer
Present
head of office : Thiru P. Ramalingam, Executive
Engineer
FUNCTIONS / OBJECTIVES
Distribution of power purchased from Tamil Nadu Electricity Board and the
Pondicherry
Power Corporation Limited to different categories of consumers.
To provide uninterrupted power supply to all categories of consumers.
To atttend to public
complaints at the shortest period of time.
Telephone Nos. :
Announcements :
| It is pleased to inform that 11 KV Capacitor Banks of 3.6 MVAR capacity have been successfully commissioned into service on 06/08/2008 at the 110/11 KV Pillaitheruvasal SS in Karaikal Region, which has resulted in considerable improvement of 11 KV Bus Parameters as below ; | ||||
| LV Load in Amps | P.F. | 11 KV Bus Voltage | ||
| Before | 244 | 0.837 | 10.94 KV | |
| After | 219 | 0.95 | 11.24 KV | |