The document outlines the vision and benefits of smart grids, emphasizing their role in transforming the energy sector to enhance efficiency, reliability, and sustainability. It discusses India's journey towards implementing smart grid technologies, detailing institutional setups and challenges faced, including funding and regulatory issues. Additionally, it highlights global smart grid trends and concludes with the importance of collaborative efforts for successful implementation and customer engagement.

1. Smart Grid Journey
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2. • Energy Sector Realities and Emerging Needs
• Smart Grid Vision and concept
• Smart Grid: Energy Internet and advantage
• Key challenge and smart meter
• Conceptual Model High Level and reference model
• Smart Grid Benefits
• Difference of Current Grid and Smart Grid
• India’s smart grid Journey
• National Smart Grid Mission
• Institutional Set-up for Smart Grids in the country
• Global Market Trends
• Conclusion
CONTENTS
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Energy Sector Realities and Emerging
NeedsNational Priorities Current Situation Implications
Meeting Demand
Shortage
• Chronic power shortages
• Rapid demand growth
• Inadequate energy access
• Augmentation of generation
capacity; efficiency improvement
• Power evacuation and grid access
Clean Energy
Deployment
• RE capacity increasing ~
3000+ MW added each year
• Require smarter systems for power
balancing to deal with variability &
unpredictability
Operational Efficiency
Improvement
• Poor operational efficiency
• High system losses
• R-APDRP has provided much
needed support
• Need for ability to control and
monitor power flow till customer
level
Enhancing Consumer
Service Standards
• Poor system visibility
• Lack of reliability
• Real time system to enable better
system visibility and consumer
participation
Smart Grids can transform the existing grid into a more efficient, reliable, safe
and enable address sector challenges.

4. Smart Grid Vision
“Transform the power sector into a
secure, adaptive, sustainable and
digitally enabled ecosystem that
provides reliable and quality energy
for all with active participation of
stakeholders”
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“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making
them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new
generation grows up that is familiar with it.”-- Max Planck

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Smart Grid Concept
• There are many views of what is In reality, a smart grid is not a single concept
but rather a combination of technologies and methods intended to modernize the
existing grid in order to improve flexibility, availability, energy efficiency, and
costs.
• Uses information technologies to improve how electricity travels from power
plants to consumers.
• Integrates new and improved technologies into the operation of the grid.
• Allows customer interact with the grid.
• Intelligent meters
• Advanced autonomous controls,
• Distributed energy storage,
• Distributed generation, and
• Flexible power architectures.
• Including renewable energy systems.
• Improved security

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Smart Grid: The “Energy Internet”
TWO Way flow of electricity and information

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Advantages for Power
Companies• Enables rapid and automated incident
response
• Makes frequency regulation easier and
increases grid stability and power quality
• Load Leveling.
Advantages for End-
User• Distributed Generation more cost-effective,
can sell back to the grid
• May decrease cost of electricity for consumers
• Enables the smart, programmable operation of important systems or
appliances
Environmental Advantage
• Eliminate Need to Build New Peaking Power Plants, which reduce Emissions and
Pollutants
• Enable Consumers to Reduce Carbon Footprint
• Renewable energy systems into a utility asset

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Key Challenges
• Government Support – funding and to ensure coordinated development
• National Road Map adopted but implementation wherewithal missing
• Access of financial resources particularly due to poor financial health of the power
utilities
• Lack of Policy and Regulation related to Smart Grid applications
– No proven commercial viability of large scale smart grid implementation – Cost
and benefit assessment (Most of the initiatives are pilots)
• Development of Smart Grid Standards including pilot models that can be adopted by
discoms based on their level of maturity to handle such applications
• Ability of users to absorb implementation of advanced technology
• Lack of awareness requiring knowledge creation, training and capacity building of both
the utility and consumers.
Electricity Act 2003 and the underlying policies does provide for
introducing all of the above, however implementation mechanism have to
be ensured

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Smart Meters and Smart
Machines• Smart appliances networked and programmed
into grid demand.
• AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure)
• PEM (Personal Energy Management
• Many communication methods, not all require
new infrastructure.
What Makes a Grid “Smart?”
Digital technology that allows for two-way
communication between the utility and its customers,
and the sensing along the transmission lines is what
makes the grid smart. Like the Internet, the Smart
Grid will consist of controls, computers, automation,
and new technologies and equipment working
together, but in this case, these technologies will work
with the electrical grid to respond digitally to our
quickly changing electric demand.

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Conceptual Model High Level
View

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Conceptual Reference
Model

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Smart Grid
Benefits

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Difference of Current Grid and Smart
Grid
Current Grid Smart Grid

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Characteristics Traditional grid Smart Grid
Technology Electromechanical:
Traditional grid is electromechanical.
Digital:
The smart grid employs digital
technology.
Distribution
One-Way Distribution:
Power can only be distributed one way.
Two-Way Distribution:
Power is distributed from plant to user
end and user end to grid.
Generation Centralized:
all power must be generated from a
central location.
Distributed:
Power can be distributed from multiple
plants and substations.
Sensors Few Sensors:
The infrastructure is not equipped to
handle many sensors on the lines.
Sensors Throughout:
In a smart grid infrastructure system,
there are multiple sensors placed on
the lines.
Monitoring Manual:
Due to limitations in traditional
infrastructure.
Self:
The smart grid can monitor itself using
digital technology.
Control Limited:
Using traditional power infrastructure.
Pervasive:
With the increased amount of sensors
and other smart infrastructure.

15. India’s smart grid Journey
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Realizing the growing importance of Smart Grid technologies in the Indian power sector,
the Ministry of Power (MOP) had taken early steps in 2010 by constituting the India Smart
Grid Task Force (ISGTF) and the India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF).

16. The Government of India approved the establishment of a National Smart Grid Mission
(NSGM) in Power Sector. (OM issued on March 27, 2015)
NSGM to plan and monitor
implementation of policies and
programmes related to Smart Grid
activities in India.
NSGM - Project Management Unit
(NPMU) housed in POWERGRID -
Single point contact for GoI’s views
on Smart Grid.
NSGM will have its own resources, authority,
functional & financial autonomy.
The total outlay for NSGM activities for 12th Plan:
Rs.980 crore with a budgetary support of
Rs.338 crore.
National Smart Grid Mission
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Institutional Set-up for Smart Grids in the
country
Bureau of
Indian
Standards
(BIS)
India Smart Grid
Forum (ISGF)
India Smart
Grid Task Force
(ISGTF)
CPRI,
BEE, CERC
State
Utilities
Industry/
Research
Institutes
Government of India / Ministry of Power
State
Government
CERC/
SERC’s
Indiçâtes direct interaction among the entities
------------- Indirect interaction among the entities

18. Deployment of Smart Grid
in Smart cities
Three full scale projects SG
Projects worth Rs. 258 Crores
sanctioned under NSGM
35 million Smart Meters
installation envisaged by
December 2019 - UDAY mandate
40000 MW of roof top PV by 2022 –
Smart Grid the key to efficient
integration & facilitating ‘prosumers’
Efficient use of existing sources
through Smart Grid –
DSM/DR/PLM/PQM Impending proliferation of
Electric Vehicles- creation of
charging infra.
Industry can join
hands under ESCO
model : High T&D
Loss
Smart Grid – Opportunities
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Global Market Trends
Country National Smart Grid Initiatives
China The Chinese government has developed a large, long-term stimulus plan to invest
in water systems, rural infrastructures and power grids, including a substantial
investment in smart grids.
China’s State Grid Corporation outlined plans in 2010 for a pilot smart grid
programme that maps out deployment to 2030. Smart grids investments will
reach at least USD 96 billion by 2020.
United States USD 4.5 billion was allocated to grid modernisation under the American
Recovery Reinvestment Act of 2009, including:
• USD 3.48 billion for the quick integration of proven technologies into existing
electric grid infrastructure
• USD 435 million for regional smart grid demonstrations
 USD 185 million for energy storage and demonstrations
Japan The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan is developing a smart
grid that incorporates solar power generation by 2020 with government
investment of over USD 100 million.
Lots of additional work happening issues on Demand response and Micro
grid

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Conclusion
• It won’t happen all at once:
Smart Grid will be an evolution with long-term implications.
• Next steps: collaborate with customers, shareholders and regulators
to put scope and final designs in place.
• Start up costs involved; but savings expected in the long run.
• Solid focus will remain on customer choice.
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