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Republic of the Union of Myanmar Preparatory Survey on Distribution Electricity Supply Enterprise Ministry of Electric Power Republic of the Union of Myanmar Republic of the Union of Myanmar Preparatory Survey on Distribution System Improvement Project in Main Cities Final Report July 2015 Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. 1R Nippon Koei Co., Ltd. JR 15-033 Table of contents Chapter 1 Background ........................................................................................................... 1-1 1.1 Background ................................................................................................................................. 1-1 1.2 Survey schedule .......................................................................................................................... 1-3 1.3 JICA survey team and counterpart .............................................................................................. 1-5 Chapter 2 Present Status ........................................................................................................ 2-1 2.1 Present status of the power distribution sector ........................................................................... 2-1 2.2 Movement of Corporatization and franchising ........................................................................... 2-6 2.3 Electricity Tariff .......................................................................................................................... 2-7 2.3.1 Number of Consumers ........................................................................................................ 2-7 2.3.2 Tariff Structure .................................................................................................................... 2-7 2.3.3 Tariff Collection ................................................................................................................ 2-10 2.4 ESE’s Financials ....................................................................................................................... 2-12 2.4.1 ESE’s Budget .................................................................................................................... 2-12 2.4.2 Distribution Losses ........................................................................................................... 2-13 2.5 Assistance by other donors ....................................................................................................... 2-13 2.5.1 ADB assistance in power distribution sector .................................................................... 2-13 2.5.2 WB assistance in power distribution sector ...................................................................... 2-14 Chapter 3 Basic Information on Main Regional Townships ............................................... 3-1 3.1 Overviews of various districts and townships ............................................................................ 3-1 3.1.1 Ayeyarwady Region ............................................................................................................ 3-2 3.1.2 Bago Region ........................................................................................................................ 3-2 3.1.3 Chin State ............................................................................................................................ 3-3 3.1.4 Kachin State ........................................................................................................................ 3-3 3.1.5 Kayah State ......................................................................................................................... 3-4 3.1.6 Kayin State .......................................................................................................................... 3-4 3.1.7 Magway Region .................................................................................................................. 3-4 3.1.8 Mandalay Region ................................................................................................................ 3-5 3.1.9 Mon State ............................................................................................................................ 3-6 3.1.10 Rakhine State ...................................................................................................................... 3-6 3.1.11 Sagaing Region ................................................................................................................... 3-7 3.1.12 Shan State ............................................................................................................................ 3-8 3.1.13 Tanintharyi Region .............................................................................................................. 3-8 3.2 Population of each city ............................................................................................................... 3-9 3.3 Current conditions of power demand and supply ..................................................................... 3-10 3.3.1 Peak demand and annual electricity sales ......................................................................... 3-10 3.3.2 Capacity Utilization rate of distribution substations ......................................................... 3-12 3.3.3 Distribution loss ................................................................................................................ 3-17 3.4 Current conditions of distribution facilities .............................................................................. 3-19 3.4.1 Distribution transformers (11/0.4 kV) ............................................................................... 3-21 3.4.2 Transmission/Distribution lines ........................................................................................ 3-21 3.4.3 Poles .................................................................................................................................. 3-21 3.4.4 kWh Meters ....................................................................................................................... 3-22 3.5 Current policies on distribution improvement and latest improvement plan ............................ 3-23 3.6 Framework of planning, design, and construction of distribution facilities ............................. 3-25 3.6.1 Construction budget .......................................................................................................... 3-25 3.6.2 Basic design, specification examination ........................................................................... 3-25 3.6.3 Project ordering ................................................................................................................. 3-25 3.6.4 Detailed design, construction management, and succession ............................................. 3-26 3.7 Operation and maintenance of distribution facilities ................................................................ 3-26 3.7.1 Responsibility demarcation of 66 kV and 33 kV facilities ............................................... 3-26 3.7.2 Operation and maintenance of distribution facilities ........................................................ 3-27 3.7.3 Power outage record management .................................................................................... 3-28 Chapter 4 Selection of Targeted Cities for Formulation of Distribution Network Improvement Plan ................................................................................................ 4-1 4.1 Criteria for selection of target cities ........................................................................................... 4-1 4.2 Selection of target Cities ............................................................................................................. 4-4 Chapter 5 Formulation of Distribution Networks Improvement plan .............................. 5-1 5.1 Power demand forecast ............................................................................................................... 5-1 5.1.1 Power demand forecast for whole Myanmar ...................................................................... 5-1 5.1.2 Forecast of power demand for each State/Region ............................................................... 5-2 5.1.3 Forecast of power demand for target cities ......................................................................... 5-2 5.2 Formulation of Distribution Network Development Plan .......................................................... 5-3 5.2.1 Focused areas of the cities for the projects ......................................................................... 5-4 5.2.2 Building up power equipment to reinforce interconnections between power grids ............ 5-4 5.2.3 Selecting preferred-implementation projects for formulation of 5 year plan ...................... 5-5 5.3 Drafting 5 year distribution improvement plan .......................................................................... 5-9 5.3.1 Collecting information about 5 year distribution improvement plan .................................. 5-9 5.3.2 Drafting 5 year distribution improvement plan ................................................................. 5-10 Chapter 6 Candidate projects for Japanese ODA Loan ...................................................... 6-1 6.1 Selection of candidate projects for Japanese ODA loan ............................................................. 6-1 6.1.1 Feature of distribution system improvement plan ..............................................................
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