INDIAN POWER SECTOR

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SMARTGRID

INITIATIVES

Power Sector in India

• Ministry of Power deals with development

of power sector in India which includes legal and

policy initiatives, R&D, capacity building , financial

and technical interventions to improve distribution

efficiency

• Works with the Policy guidelines laid by the

Cabinet which is responsible to the Parliament

• Planning Commission and Standing committees of

the Parliament also give directions to MoP

• Interacts with CERC and SERCs

• MNRE deals with Renewable sources of energy 2

Power Sector in India

• Central Electricity Authority (CEA) is the technical

arm of the Ministry of Power.

• Central Transmission Utility (CTU) ie PGCIL is

responsible for inter regional and inter state

transmission

– Private sector is also involved in transmission

• State Transmission Utilities (STUs) is responsible

for transmission within the state

• National Tariff Policy, National Electricity Policy

and Rural Electrification Policies are in place

according to the Electricity Act, 2003 3

Power Scenario in India

• Total installed Capacity : 178 GW

• Mix: Thermal 66%, Hydro 20 %, Nuclear 3%,

Renewables 11%

• Plans for 100 GW addition in next plan

• 4 ultra Mega Power Plants of 4000 MW each

sanctioned

• 20 GW solar generation by 2020.

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Power Scenario in India

• Transmission Voltages: 765 KV, 400 KV and

220 KV

• Initiative taken for 1000 KV transmission

• India is divided into five electrical grids

• National despatch center, RLDC and SLDCs

are in place

• All census villages to be electrified by 2012

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Total 85 entities are in operation in the country

[ 7 - in central / joint sector , 78 in state sector ( 32 -

DISCOMs, 16-TRANSCOs, 4- SEBs, 15 -GENCOs

and 9 PDs, others -2) ]

Beside above there are power exchanges (PXIL, IEX,

NPEX),Central and State Electricity Regulatory Commissions,

Training Institutions.

In addition, there are two dedicated financial institutions- REC

and PFC- in the country for funding power sector.

The distribution of power is mainly with state power utilities

(about 88%), Balance 12% is in the Private Sector.

Concerns in the sector

• Has to keep pace and help to sustain the 9-10%

growth rate achieved by India, maintained even

during the world economic recession

• Access to electricity – grid or non grid- to all in

hamlets and remote areas

• High AT&C losses (reduced from 38.86% in

2001-02 to 28.44% in 2008-09)

• Aging infrastructure

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INITIATIVES IN SMART GRID IN

INDIA

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Restructured Accelerated Power

Development and Reforms Program

• A $ 1.2 Billion program was launched in 2008

to ensure actual demonstrable loss reduction to

15% on a sustainable basis in towns and cities

with population > 30,000 (10,000 in special

areas)- 1401 towns under the program.

• Establishment of reliable and automated

systems for sustained collection of accurate

base line data, and the adoption of Information

Technology in the areas of energy accounting 10

R-APDRP

• Part - A: Metering of Distribution

Transformers and Feeders, Automatic Data

Logging for all Distribution Transformers and

Feeders, SCADA / DMS system, Preparation of

Consumer Indexing, GIS Mapping of

consumers and entire distribution network, IT

applications for meter reading, billing &

collection; energy accounting & auditing; MIS;

redressal of consumer grievances; establishment

of IT enabled consumer service centres etc.

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RAPDRP

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• Part - B: Renovation, modernization and

strengthening of 11 kV level Substations,

Transformers/Transformer Centers, Re-

conductoring of lines at 11kV level and below,

Load Bifurcation, feeder separation, Load

Balancing, HVDS (11kV), Aerial Bunched

Conductoring in dense areas, replacement of

electromagnetic energy meters with tamper

proof electronics meters, installation of

capacitor banks and mobile service centres etc.

For the systemic growth of the Smart Grid

in the country, Government of India has

constituted a

Indian Smart Grid Task Force (ISGTF)

And

India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF)

Smart Grid Task Force is an inter ministerial groupand will serve as Government’s focal point foractivities related to “Smart Grid”.

The task force is chaired by Mr Sam Pitroda,Advisorto Prime Minister on public InformationInfrastructure

Objective : Development of Smart Grid technologiesin the Indian Power Sector.

• Role : Ensuring awareness, coordination &integration of the diverse activities related to SMARTGRID technologies , R&D, inter-governmentalactivities, interoperability frame work, review &validate recommendations of SMART GRID forumetc

India Smart Grid Task force

Working

Groups

Domain

1 Methodology for selecting pilots

2 Loss reduction and theft control including data

gathering and analytics

3 Access of power to rural areas & quality power to

urban areas

4 Distributed generation & renewable

5 Physical cyber security standards and spectrum

India Smart Grid Task force -

Progress • Two meetings of task force have been held

• Five working groups under chairmanship of domain experts/

organisations have been constituted along with the members

India Smart Grid Task force –

Progress - contd …..

• Web portal http://www.isgtf.in launched as discussion platform

and for dissemination of information, Sharing of information

amongst members, document management.

• Pilots for development of Smart Grid is being identified.

Scoping & funding pattern for Smart Grid Pilots are also being

established.

• We are looking for partnerships for implementation of smart

grid pilots in India.

India Smart Grid Forum

• India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF) is a non-profitvoluntary consortium of public and privatestakeholders.

– Objective :

Accelerating development of Smart Gridtechnologies in the Indian Power Sector.

- Role :

Advisory in nature and it will be publiclypromoted but privately managed.

Working Groups Domain

1 Advanced transmission

2 Advanced distribution

3 Communications

4 Metering and interoperability standards

5 Consumption & Load control

6 Policy & Regulations

7 Architecture & design incl interoperable standard for Smart

Grid elements other than meters

8 Business Model

India Smart Grid Forum

• Two meetings of Forum have been held

• Eight working groups constituted under chairmanship of domain

experts/

India Smart Grid ForumProgress - contd …..

• Over 50 leading IT/Power/research/ utilities are keen

to join the forum /institution.

• More than 100 experts have given their nominations

for contribution for various working groups.

• ISGF has signed an MoU with Korean Smart Grid

Forum & Japanese Smart Grid (NEDO)

Signing of MoU with KSGF at Jeju,

Korea on 8-Nov-2010

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IA with IEA on ISGAN

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India Smart Grid …….WAY FORWARD

• Devise low cost /cost economical solutions & hardware for

SMART meters for all consumers:

• AMR meters at the customer level eliminating the need for

human intervention in reading.

• Use the GSM backbone for the long haul back to the

DattaCenters

• Cost of meters to be well within $ 20-30,keeping in view

the large volume required

• Identification of pilots for development of Smart Grid

• Identifying areas of improvement in policies/ regulations for

development of SMART GRID

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India Smart Grid Forum…….WAY FORWARD

• Need for formulating of required protocols/ standards

• Development of SMART GRID for integration & usage ofrenewables & reducing carbon foot prints making world morelivable.

• Energy storage mechanisms to be evolved to smoothen thevariations in the wind and solar generation.

• Evolve DDG systems to bring far flung villages into thepower coverage

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