To establish a strategic partnership to promote, implement and accelerate the uptake of smart grid technologies and sustainable power system in India, Asia, Africa and Middle East, the Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (Tata Power-DDL) has signed a Memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Green Business Certification Institute (GBCI) on Friday.

The MoU aims to bring together relevant technical competencies and share resources, tools and information. The MoU was signed between Sanjay Kumar Banga, CEO, Tata Power-DDL Mili Majumdar, MD - GBCI.

“The collaboration with an institution like Green Business Certification Institute will provide momentum towards making a robust sustainable power system. We are confident that the association with GBCI will empower utilities with key performance outcomes, capabilities, design considerations, metrics and examples of best practices that will enable customer satisfaction and improve power system efficiency,” said On Sanjay Kumar Banga, CEO, Tata Power-DDL .

The Green Business Institute of Certification and Tata Power Limited will now jointly work on common goals and utility objectives related to identification of opportunities for applications of Performance Excellence in Electricity Renewal (PEER). The PEER is a comprehensive, consumer-centric, data-driven system for evaluating power system performance and to promote sustainable power.

“We are privileged to partner with Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited to steer certification of sustainable power systems in India. As the world’s first ertification, PEER measures and helps to improve power system performance and energy infrastructure.

We work with multiple stakeholders across the world to help them transform the power sector and now we will be jointly working with Tata Power- DDL towards a common goal of providing sustainable power for all, said Mili Majumdar, MD — GBCI.