Panipat to get country’s first smart grid project

India-Japan Smart Grid Pilot Project was inaugurated Panipat, Haryana to solve the various complications faced by the power distribution sector.

Facts :

• It was inaugurated by State Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar in the presence of Japanese Minister Keniko Sen.
• India-Japan Smart Grid Pilot Project was initiated under intensive relations between Japan and India and Central Government’s flagship Make in India Programme.
• Project area covers Panipat City Sub Division having 11,000 Customers and Adopted Functionalities includes AMI-R, AMI-I, PLM, OMS.
• A fully automatic control room has been established at the 33 KV substation at the mini-secretariat. Power supply from its origin to the consumers’ end could be monitored through the control room.
• Employees need not visit house to house for meter reading as this could be done in the control room.
• Tempering of a meter would be detected immediately and in case of a fault, power supply to a particular area could be cut off without affecting other areas.
• The project aims to make electricity distribution network smarter and disseminate Japanese technologies in India.
• It also seeks to improve capacity of power companies to provide operational know-how concerning power distribution to effectively use smart grid-related technologies to reduce distribution losses and failure rate of distribution transformers.
• It also seeks to improve the frequency of power failures, by providing Japanese operational know-how concerning power distribution systems including mastering those technologies.
• Under this project, smart meters were installed at homes of customers in Panipat to perform data collection as well as monitoring and control through supervisory control system called SCADA.
• Its purpose is to demonstrate peak load reduction technology, distribution grid monitoring and control technology and power distribution loss reduction technology aimed at power meter  tampering, power theft, and omission of bill collection.
• Nearly 11,000 consumers of the four feeders would benefit.

Background:

• The Union Ministry of Power has launched fourteen smart grid pilot projects to modernize power distribution networks in India for building next generation power distribution networks with less electrical waste.
• NEDO Japan has Placed the order to Fuji Electric Japan and further Lotus Wireless Technologies has Bagged the Order from M/s Fuji Electric Japan in April 2016 to Design , Manufacture , supply and commission Required Smart Meters, Data Concentrator Units, Field RTU, Head End System Software.
• The project in Panipat, Haryana is one of the fourteen smart grid pilot projects.
• Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) had inked Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Haryana Government in December 2015 for demonstration of Smart Grid Pilot Project in Panipat.
   

By: Harman Sandhu