Kcet
Alternating Current
KCET 2026
MCQ+1 / -02026
A small town with a demand of $900\text{ kW}$ of electric power at $220\text{ V}$ is situated $20\text{ km}$ away from an electric power generating station. Each wire of the two-wire transmission line has a resistance per unit length of $5 \times 10^{-4} \, \Omega\text{ m}^{-1}$. The town gets power from the line through a $45000\text{ V}$ to $220\text{ V}$ step-down transformer at a substation in the town. The line power loss in the form of heat is:
