Analysis of Quality, Installation of Power Supplied by APSPDCL to Urban and Rural Areas

This paper deals about the installation, supply, and quality of the power. It covers the installation of electricity service in the house, the time gap between installation and application, problems involved in connection, availability of power, power cut, alternative source of power, opinion on quality of power supplied, fault metering, damage of electrical appliances, etc. the different parameters such as electrification, power cut, alternative source of energy, power quality and fault clearing time by APSSDC, and damage of the electricity appliance due to poor power quality. The opinion of the respondents from urban and rural areas has not varied on the installation of electricity service, problems of electrical appliances due poor quality of power. There is no difference between urban and rural respondents’ opinion on frequent causes of power cut and poor quality of power supply. This study is based on the primary data collected through structured questionnaire with related variables. The sample size of 740 respondents was chosen by using proportionate random sampling technique from among urban and rural domestic electricity consumers of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.