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Spotlight A Smarter Grid for India Oct 11, 2007
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| Interconnection of renewable source of power generation |
| I agree with the need of smart grid concept in India but i just want to know , how far this power geneartion from renewable energy sources are related with smart grid. And how the concept of smart grid is applicable for rural areas where load variation is not so high. |
| Himanshu Agarwal - 10/17/2007 - 01:46 |
| Is AMI the Real Solution or Just Muddy Water? |
| This is an excellent article on a very important topic. I would like to pose an argument that AMI may not be the most important piece of the Smart Grid to focus on, right now, for India. During a recent trip to India, I noted a great stir among utilities to talk about the "Smart Grid". However, the real subject was AMI alone. With the high theft, high regulation structure of most of India, I would suggest focusing on large gains in the industrial, commercial, and ever expanding buildings (tenant) markets. Utilities should install the networks and equipment to manage the loads at these sites (without mandatory outages like today) along with rates that incent customers to participate in demand response initiatives. The losses and theft cannot be seriously addressed until the state agrees that it is a problem to be dealt with. Just because I have data that tampering is occurring or has occurred, doesn't necessarily mean that it will stop! AMI doesn't solve the problems of uncollected debt, laws that deny the utility rights to disconnect, or poverty driven desparation. It seems a lot of vendors are hungry to sell their products to Indian utilities and the utilities are getting confused by the whirlwind of information being thrown at them. AMI is only a piece of the Smart Grid solution. India should consider which pieces will give them the biggest gain and focus on implementing those. In the meantime, the utilities and the government need to agree on proper policies for transparency and real penalties for not adhering. Only then will the AMI piece bring any real value to the country. |
| Lance Irwin - 10/17/2007 - 09:42 |
| Re: AMI |
| Thanks for the comment, Lance, it is good to have some insight from someone who has been to India and works on this topic. I strongly agree with you that advanced meters are only part of the solution. Any comprehensive AMI program needs to from the beginning understand how they will leverage a stronger metering infrastructure to enable actual progress towards their end goals. And in fact, while advanced metering in the United States may deal with issues of communication, measurement, and demand response, I submit that advanced metering in a place like India means "advanced" with greater regard to the problems that they are facing in particular. I wholeheartedly agree that vendors need to work with Indian utilities to show where their products are going to fit in to a broader plans. At the same time, if you look at some of the energy theft reduction campaigns in Brazil, Malaysia, and other developing countries, advanced metering can and does play an important role. global_slumelectric.pdf The meters may not look very advanced but they are coupled with community interaction programs, education, local employment, distribution of energy efficient appliances, debt forgiveness, improved billing, and other programs, they play an important role. One of the most prominent examples is the electrification of a slum in Sao Paulo, Brazil. slum-electrification-brazil |
| Alex Zheng - 10/17/2007 - 10:54 |
| Existing Distribution Net Work in India v/s Smart Grid |
| Alex, I am working for a utility in the United States for couple of years and have worked for very long in India for distribution and transmission. Mostly in distribution. Have dealt with the issues ranging from overloaded feeders & power supply & sub station maintenace to releasing new services and bill collection issues. Yes, the defaulting customers are always one of the top issues on the list for utility companies and managers. And the frequent load shedding is always a point of discussion for the benifit of local politics. The existing distribution network needs to be completely overhauled and upgraded to meet the growing demads of the fast prospering middle class of one of the fastest growing economies of the world. While advance metering in the united States is dealing with the demand response and energy identity theft issues. I completely agree with you and Lance that AMI may not be the most important piece of Smart Grid to focus on for India for now, in spite of the record economic growth. The grid stability, asset planning and reliability needs to be addressed first with available resources while preparing for Smart Grid initiatives. |
| Shailesh Jain - 05/11/2008 - 00:30 |
| THE ENTIRE GAMUT OF POER/ENERGY GENERATION,t&d,SUPPLY O |
| i WOULD LIKE TO KNOW EVERYTHING THAT IS RELEVANT FOR MY AREAS OF INTERST |
| Bakool Khanderia - 09/01/2009 - 02:27 |
| Smartgrid for India |
| Though it is a fact that there are diffiencies like the losses are very high due to various reasons and reduction in the distribution losses is a top priority, proper assessment of the losses is the need of the hour. This can be achieved by AMI. AMI will not only help in total and accurate metering of consumption at consumer level but also help in assessing the actual losses .It will also help in the optimal use and design of the distribution system. AMI solutions could not be thought in the past because of the poor communication infrastucture. Strenghtening of the distribution system and upgrading can be done once the defects are known. |
| H.S.Ramakrishna - 10/18/2009 - 05:02 |
| Smart Grid is great but.... |
| I work for a company in Unites States and we do have operations solution which enables support of utility commercial operations in a Smart Grid. It helps utilities to realize the benefits of renewable, distributed energy, and demand response in terms of daily operations and infrastructure expansion. I have also worked in India for one of its largest transmission company before and kind of understand the grid concept and the state level distribution of power and also the evil control of bureaucracy in the industry. Although, smart grid concept sounds interesting and very useful but I wonder if it really going to work in countries like India. Is it really be useful where there is no control on electricity theft, still tons of unpaid customer, tampered networks, over congested transmission lines and on top of that utilities companies still owned by government who makes their decision based on the vote bank and other trivial issues. However, at the same time like any other hopeful Indian, I feel half heartedly that if the electrification of slum in Brazil can happen , why not in India someday. Especially, if they have to reach and sustain double digit GDP growth. |
| Sanjeev Singh - 02/03/2010 - 13:28 |
| Smart grid for India |
| Ithink answer for Poor comunication infrastructure is DLC - distribution line communication. Our company has several succesfull installations in poor quality grids in Poland - it perfectly works. Who can be interested in this technology in India. Did the Author still works with India grids? |
| Darius Vaicekauskas - 02/04/2010 - 04:10 |
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