India and most developing
countries continue to struggle for 24x7 power supply, good Power Quality (PQ) environment,
and Energy Efficient (EE) economy. See APQI earlier blog that tries to quantify
economic impact from poor PQ environment - Are developing economies at risk due to power quality issues and challenges?
Another follow-up question will
be WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING GOOD
POWER QUALITY? Answer to this is usually divided and depends upon whom we
pose this question. Network Operator will blame his end-customers, Device
Manufacturer will blame both the Network Operator and the end-customer, and
end-customer usually has not much awareness, and believe that its supply
problem from Network Operator.
In addition to above
3 key stakeholders, there are others like - Designers, Commissioning Engineers and
Maintenance Engineers that also plays role in sustaining good PQ
environment.Commissioning Engineer play the role in ensuring the quality of
installation based on certain design standards. Good installation is one of the
necessities to maintain power quality during operations and to minimize voltage
drop, sparking, overheating, etc. Maintenance engineers are subsequently
responsible for preventing any glitches in operations which can result in power
quality issue. For ex. loose connections lead to sparking;poor quality of wires
results in voltage drops at customers premise, etc.
