Chennai: Finance and electricity minister Thangam Thennarasu on Tuesday clarified that farmers are given three-phase power supply for 16 hours daily. The clarification comes in the wake of ...

Today's high-power drives and inverters now share their 3-phase power sources with a new type of switch-mode power supply — the 3-phase power supply (“The Basics of a 3-Phase Power Supply,” below).

Currently, three-phase electricity is provided only during the nine hours of free power supply to agricultural connections. It can efficiently distribute large amounts of power at high voltages ...