CEA issues norms to ensure quality control in raw materials of cables, conductors
The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has provided an advising prompting power field business to carefully comply with quality assurance orders and developed standards for materials like aluminium ingots, wire poles, and wires, critical for making conductors and cables.
The CEA’s standards ask for conductor and wire manufacturers to apply compulsory procedures and high quality checks. These criteria put on all tenders issued by transmission and distribution business across the country.
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), in addition to the mines ministry and the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, had released these quality control orders (QCOs) for aluminium and aluminium alloy products.
“It is thus recommended that all the energies must conjure up the compliance of the aforementioned quality control orders in their tender specs for the procurement of conductors/cables for electrical high-voltage line. Compliance to QCOs would be useful in getting the high quality conductors/ cords and in the resultant reduction in the power losses in the lines,” the CEA stated in its advisory.
The relocation lines up with the federal government’s purpose to enhance item top quality in the power industry, promote Indian manufacturing, encourage ‘Made in India’ products, and accomplish self-direction.
To guarantee compliance, the CEA has actually mandated that vendors of these basic materials supply quality examination certifications prior to bidding for conductor and cable supply contracts.
Additionally, the CEA needs that tasting and inspection of conductors and cables be performed at the distribution website specified in the contract. This procedure is to be conducted along with the existing evaluations and screening at the producer’s or distributor’s facilities.
Bidders must also submit a declaration from the producer or vendor, confirmed by a statutory auditor or expense auditor, outlining the source of aluminium cables, rods, and ingots. This accreditation is a requirement for participating in tenders for electrical high-voltage line conductors and cables.
Furthermore, the advisory asked transmission and distribution licensees to establish standing committees to attend to grievances associated with non-compliance or infractions of these standards and QCOs. These entities are likewise called for to send quarterly conformity records to the CEA, guaranteeing strict adherence to the guidelines and advertising high-quality requirements within the industry.
