KSEB (Kerala State Electricity Board)

The Kerala State Electricity Board came into existence on March 31, 1957 as per the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948, with K. Sreedharan Nair as its first Chairman. The Chairman and the Members are the Supreme Governing Body. KSEB is a public sector organization under the Government of Kerala. Generation, Transmission and Distribution of electricity is vested with KSEB. State Electricity Consultative Council was constituted in 1958. The transmission sector of KSEB comprises of two zones : North and South. The North zone headquarters is at Kozhikode and South zone headquarters is at Thiruvananthapuram. KSEB distributes power in all districts of Kerala except for the Thrissur Municipal Corporation and Munnar (Kannan Devan Hills). The Distribution Wing is split into three zones i.e. South, Central and North. The four types of distribution are Domestic, non-domestic, agricultural and LT industrial. On January 14, 2011, it was incorporated as a company named Kerala State Electricity Board Limited, and the Cabinet approved the subsequent steps for this transition in 2013. In 1958, KSEB's installed capacity was merely 109.5 megawatts. Currently, 34 percent of the total energy requirement is met through generation from KSEB's various projects. The domestic sector accounts for 50 percent of Kerala's electricity consumption. At present, KSEB operates 31 hydroelectric projects, two diesel power plants, one wind farm, and more than 65 solar plants.