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PDB fails to live up to WB prescription

System loss rises to 40.6 pc

By Shahzad Monju
The present system loss of Power Development Board (PDB) rose to 40.6 per cent, according to the figures com puted till December 1990. It Was 40 per cent during the last fiscal year
PDB has. however, failed to live up to the prescription of World Bank to reduce its pre sent system loss to 32 per cent. The system loss of PDB is over 8 per cent than that of the World Bank suggestion.
World Bank also suggested PDB to reduce the duration of receivable electricity bill standing at three and half months back. But PDB is now standing at about five months back to recover its electricity bill.
World Bank has suspended the $ 100 million Energy Sec- • tor Credit dye to non-fulfilment of its suggestions by PDB.
However. PDB had received about Taka 80 crore as loan from World Bank and about Taka 50 crore from Aslan Development Bank earlier, a high official of PDB said.
So many causes are responsible for system loss, PDB authorities viewed. According to them, some causes are technical which includes excess energy transmission through thin wires, transformer load, unbalanced distribution Une and
power stations which need more energy to run.
The other causes are mainly management and organisational Inability of the Board to survey the metre reading of consumers in every month, dearth of meters, illegal use of power and meters and unit pilferage.
The extent of power varia Hons is measured in terms of load factor which is the ratio of average and maximum demand. These variations cause system loss. PDB pointed out. arguing that the power demand tn July 1989 was 1535 mw but it Increased to 1562 mw in July, 1990.
PDB had launched a project of setting up capacitor in cooperation with World Bank and
other donors in order to reduce system loss in the coun try. But the project has not been completed due to fund shortage.
An initiative was also taken to establish Capacitor Bank in order to reduce technical system loss but the task has been postponed at the middle of the project target after setting up 450 Megavar capacitor bank.
In 1989 the government created a board comprising eight magistrates to take legal action against those who are responsible for meter and unit pilferage.
The drive to eliminate widespread pilferage in meter and unit pilferage has not achieved its desired target, reliable sources said.