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How to improve efficiency of power transmission and distribution system?

We are seeing that Finance Minister proposed to create a new fund for meeting tranmission and distribution losses. I think there may be many wayouts to solve this problem. Please give answers if you know anyone.

Public Comments

1. Conventional answers are to bury the lines, but it is more expensive. You could cool the lines, make them of more conductive mateials, place generation closer to the users, choose a higher voltage, or cycle the AC current more frequently. These are rather conventional, of course.
2. You can improve the efficiency of transmission and distribution system by reducing energy losses from the resistance of the power lines.This can be done by using higher transmission voltages and increasing the wire sizes of tramsmission lines,which could also mean more investment. Transmission and distribution lines has to be properly selected that your investment could equal the energy lost in a definite period of time.